‘Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.’
‘The only thing the British have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease. You can’t trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland, it’s the country with the worst food … That’s where our problems with NATO come from.’
‘Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.’