The Best American Food Writing 2020 Quotes

“There are no shortcuts. There are no hacks. There is just hard work and life experience and two different kinds of omelets, neither one of which is better than the other, just as long as they’re well made.”
― J. Kenji López-Alt, The Best American Food Writing 2020

“But a part of sobriety is learning to deal with boredom, which in time you realize is more like simplicity.”
― J. Kenji López-Alt, The Best American Food Writing 2020

“the American dining public what it wants. And what most Americans want is the elements of Japanese culture that they like—the nice-looking things; the tender, palatable foods; the weird stuff, but nothing icky or slimy. What most Americans want isn’t Japanese: what they want is Japanese-y.”
― J. Kenji López-Alt, The Best American Food Writing 2020

“Maybe a film is just a diversion, a way to feel briefly better about our lives, the limitations and disappointments that define us, the things we cannot change. Most of us leave the theater, after all, and just go on being ourselves. Still, maybe something else is possible. Maybe in the moment when the music swells, and our hearts beat faster, and we feel overcome by the beauty of an image—in the instant that we feel newly brave and noble, and ready to be different, braver versions of ourselves—that we are who we really are.”
― J. Kenji López-Alt, The Best American Food Writing 2020