Culinary Tourism Quotes

“Buccal list: A list of food a person has never tried before but wants to taste during their lifetime.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Mastership of great culinary skills enriches the wholeness of a fine dining experience.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Food is central to travelling and is a vivid entryway into another culture, but we do not have to literally leave home to “travel”. Movies, books, postcards, memories all take us, emotionally if not physically, to other places.”
― Lucy M. Long, Culinary Tourism

“The basis of tourism is perception of otherness, of something being different from the usual.”
― Lucy M. Long, Culinary Tourism

“I define culinary tourism as the intentional, exploratory participation in the foodways of an other - participation including the consumption, preparation, and presentation of a food item, cuisine, meal system, or eating style considered to belong to a culinary system not one’s own.”
― Lucy M. Long, Culinary Tourism

“Why then," he says, suddenly turning to me and folding his arms across his chest, "did your mother study in France? Why did you study in Italy? Which I presume you did because you know as well as I do that no culinary education is considered complete without an international apprenticeship." His voice is smug, his mouth curled in a half smile.
"Wait a minute," I say, feeling suddenly compelled to defend American culinary tradition (not to mention my own expensive and, in my opinion, extremely comprehensive education at the Culinary Institute of America). "I studied in Italy because I cook Italian food. My mother studied in France because in the late 1960s there was no other option. But that certainly doesn't mean that there isn't a rich and varied culinary tradition in America today. Stop at a roadside barbeque in Texas, eat a lobster roll in Bangor, Maine, order a fried egg on your Primanti sandwich in Pittsburgh, for heaven's sake!”
― Meredith Mileti, Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses

“Bon VoyApetit!”
― Odale Cress, Cuisine is a Dialect, A Leisurely Stroll Through the Edible History of Provincetown

“Some may go so far as to label these pleasures vices, but I would not, for what is a vice after all, but a pleasure with a bad reputation?”
― Odale Cress, Cuisine is a Dialect, A Leisurely Stroll Through the Edible History of Provincetown