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As a culture, we really like our food passive.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.