Food Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“We can discover such civilized eating again”

— Eliot Coleman

“The most infuriating thing is the idea that ethnic food isn't already good enough because it goddamn is. We were fine before you came…

— Eddie Huang

“I came to understand that in the United States, land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee. The refugee…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Americans have just got afraid to taste anything.”

— William Least Heat-Moon

“the biggest emergency in ERs across the United States is the food we willingly, knowingly, happily choose to eat.”

— Travis Stork

To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and…

— Angelina Jolie

“Producing and eating our own food is, historically, much of what made us Americans and not subjects of European powers. While other colonies required…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“That's the first thing that strikes an American woman about Europe-that it's unsanitary. Impossible for them to conceive of a paradise without modern plumbing.”

— Henry Miller

“Anyone who thinks it’s easy to get to the States as a refugee has no idea.”

— Sandra Uwiringiyimana

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of…

— Antonio Guterres

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

— Ellen Ruppel Shell

“Let my story remind you that behind every refugee is a human being, a unique story waiting to be heard.”

— Hagir Elsheikh