Best quotes by Lidia Bastianich on Food

Checkout quotes by Lidia Bastianich on Food

  • Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It's all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it's good for you.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • If you're like me, food is a medium for communication. It's an expression of love and affection.
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  • Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.
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  • Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.
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  • Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • When you invite friends over, especially for food, with the food you want to send out a message of affection, of appreciation, of celebration. But also of culture - who your family is.
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  • The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.
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  • There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.
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  • Kids today are really so alienated from the source of food. If they are going to nourish themselves properly, if they are going to safeguard this environment we have and the economy that goes with it and world hunger that goes with it, they need to know about food.
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  • I think people make it too systematic in a way, like it's a chemistry formula. Food is not like that; food is very forgiving. Connecting and making do with a lot of the food elements can be fun and exciting.
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  • I am blessed that the food business is good for me. Good to me.
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  • If I'm not tasting wine and food... I'm thinking about wine and food. If I'm not thinking about wine and food... I'm writing about wine and food.
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  • All of my books have been about authentic Italian food in Italy and bringing that message about simple and authentic food.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • By cooking with your kids, you can help them understand that food is a powerful tool in connecting human beings.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • When I first came here, Italian food wasn't anything I recognized. I didn't know what Italian American food was; we never ate it at home. It was the food of immigrants who came here and made use of the ingredients they had.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • Why do you think millennials are so into food? It's the way they relate to each other.
    - Lidia Bastianich
  • What I learned being a young child was respect for food. Don't throw anything away.
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  • You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.
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  • Match the right food to the right occasion. Think about what you are celebrating. If you are honoring people, what are their favorite foods? If it is a holiday, what is the food for it? When you give an identity to the party, people appreciate that.
    - Lidia Bastianich