“Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.”

“If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.”

“Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?”

“Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.”

“True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.”

“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”