Best Food Writing 2016 Quotes

“What if it isn’t so much Indianapolis trying to be Brooklyn, as Brooklyn wanting to capture something of Indianapolis?”
― Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2016

“As a food writer, I’ve found myself both annoyed and a bit mystified that the social-media value of our breakfasts, lunches, and dinners is considered almost as important as their gustatory properties. While the nose never lies—and neither do the taste buds—the eyes do, all the damn time. I”
― Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2016

“the real achievement isn’t getting out of the place where you were born to build a new identity for yourself. It’s better to stay put and change the culture—genuinely transform—where you are.”
― Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2016

“old-fashioneds made with bone marrow–infused rye”
― Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2016

“It’s my first time in this place. Maybe like you, though, I’ve been here before—anyone who’s walked through Williamsburg or seen an episode of Girls has. It’s a landscape of under-35s, bristling with locally brewed IPAs, restaurant pop-ups, and new kinds of mustard. And everybody—literally everybody—is flaunting freestyle forearm ink. But tonight I’m not in Williamsburg. I’m in Indianapolis.”
― Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2016