The Best American Food Writing 2019 Quotes

“As bell hooks writes of Beyoncé’s Lemonade in her essay “Moving Beyond Pain,” “to be truly free”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“Veganism is not just about animals,” states Claiborne. “It’s not only for one group either. If you care about animals—and humans are animals—then it should be inclusive. All factions of veganism”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“I made a deal with myself when I saw the writing on the wall,” Spalding said. “I would say yes to everything I could to save the monument. When all this is over”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“Anthony Bourdain built his career on the telling of truth.”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“Perhaps more than any other product”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“It’s a statistic that a lot of family businesses don’t survive past the second generation,” Dana said. “My dad was in the third generation”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“If we have to be the generation that is going to be calling out problematic behavior”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“The best staples make a virtue of blandness. They quiet the mind. The nuttiness in rice”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“I thought I had a gift,” he told me. “But really it was Napa. Anything can grow in Napa.”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“Imagine the agony of a ghost who is too nice to haunt anyone properly”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“As the twentieth-century poet and activist Muriel Ruckeyser said”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“Today the Food Establishment may be less male and more geographically diverse”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019