American Food Quotes

• Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

  Henry James

  Food, Cooking, Sprinkles

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• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

  George Carlin

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cutting, Vegetables

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Sarcastic, Art, Food

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

  Nate Silver

  Vacation, Needs, Havens

  "Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office" by Daniel Miller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Italian, Kitchen, Meat

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Keys, Mcdonalds

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• Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Ethnicity, Choices, Television

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• We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Italian, Offering, Shopping

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• The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact:  Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year.  Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding.  What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population.  The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, Years, Cds

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm trying to be careful as much as I can eating this American food. Burgers are heavy. So, I'm trying to minimize that as much as I can.

  Feyisa Lilesa

  Trying, Burgers, Eating

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Korean Food, Explosions, Interest

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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