Country Quote by Tom Colicchio

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

— Frank Thomas

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

— Joel Stein

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

— Tom Vilsack

If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“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

You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125…

— Emeril Lagasse

It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and…

— Mark Kurlansky

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

— Anonymous

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two…

— Michael Pollan

I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national…

— Andrew Zimmern