Ethnic Food Quotes

You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.

I love Italian, Mexican, Thai. Something spicy.

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

I love Indian food and Thai food; those are, like, my favorites. I also like Japanese and some Italian.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums.

I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

My maternal grandmother, a.k.a. Nanny, wasn't much of a cook. As a kid I remember her making only a handful of things, mostly dishes with Ashkenazi Jewish origins like kasha and bowties (which, for the record, only my dad liked).

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

All middle-income families use carbs to stretch meals, across any ethnic group - whether it's kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, 'Breakfast for dinner? This is great.'

Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.

I'm a curry and rice girl.

Being a Punjabi, I like Indian food.

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

Whether it evokes pleasant memories of holidays in the Caribbean, or best-forgotten outings to Notting Hill, most of us have experienced jerk chicken in one form or another.

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler

I like good Mexican food, and there's not a lot of that around North Carolina.