Food Quote by Michael Ruhlman

“While Americans were increasingly interested in food—watching cooking shows on television, posting photographs of their meals to Instagram, turning restaurant chefs into media stars—we…

— Michael Ruhlman

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

— Sandra Lee

“Food used to be something you’d eat at meals. Meals used to be occasions when you’d sit down at the table and eat home-cooked…

— Alex Brecher

“Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone…

— Mary DeTurris Poust

“Americans pay less for food than do citizens of any other developed nation.”

— Ellen Ruppel Shell

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

— Alice Waters

“Food brings people together. All over the world, people gather together and eat. In America, churches have potlucks and neighborhoods have barbecues. I like…

— Lisa Schroeder

“With few ingrained food habits, Americans are among the least tradition-bound of food cultures, easily swayed by fashions and influences from other countries.”

— Dan Barber

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

— Yogi Berra

“I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Americans consume nearly a quarter of all their food in their cars, for crying out loud. Americans graze through the kitchen, popping precooked, heat-and-eat,…

— Karl Weber

“Today's American food culture is a contested landscape in search of values, new direction, and its own indigenous sense of rightness and self-worth. It's…

— Michael W. Twitty