You are here  American Food Quotes  foodlover's picture  "A man
accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would
not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would
gradually waste away, and eventually die." 'A Tramp Abroad',
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)  “....the egg
creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are
among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.”
Mark Kurlansky, 'Choice Cuts' (2002)  "Another peculiarity of
this country is the absence of napkins, even in the homes of the
wealthy. Napkins, as a rule, are never used and one has to wipe
one's mouth on the tablecloth, which in consequence suffers in
appearance." Baron Louis de Closen (on American eating habits)
(1780)  “Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more
than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are
made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was
tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and
say, 'Where's your haggis