American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.
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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.
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.
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.
If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.
People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.
Food is a lens for culture.
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
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