Soul Food Quotes

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.

A lot of people don't know, but I love soul food. I love fried chicken and pork chops, all of that.

Ever since I was little, I loved soup! Whether I was sick or had a bad day, my momma would always make me soup!

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.

Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

I grew up eating chicken and dumplings in my grandma's kitchen.

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

Chicken and waffles! I'm obsessed with those.

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'

Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts.

Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren't a lot of those.

I had seen the photographs of Harlem in its glory days, stylish men in bespoke suits, women so well dressed that they'd put the models in 'Vogue' to shame. I knew that Harlemites loved to dance, to pray, and to eat.

Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.

Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.

I think it's fun to serve comfort food because it's an instant ice-breaker. If somebody's expecting fancy food, and you whip out some fried chicken, they feel like, you know, they can put their elbows on the table, and the etiquette police aren't going to come out.

I like my fried chicken, my pizza, my peaches and my gefilte fish.

My favorite was always smothered pork chops. Smothered pork chops. That would be my request if I ever had one, and it was pretty consistent.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.