Baseball Quote by Mark Kurlansky

I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most…

— Mark Kurlansky

I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I…

— Jim Gaffigan

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As…

— Michael Pollan

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.…

— Dana Goodyear

Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are…

— Lauren Collins

I think that people are more eager to learn about food than almost every other topic.

— Adam Conover

Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion.…

— Mark Kurlansky

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

— Mark Kurlansky

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used…

— Joanne Harris

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

— Lidia Bastianich