22 Quotes by Dana Goodyear

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.

I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.