382 Quotes About Tradition

One of the functions of traditional cuisines is to reinforce these shared childhood food memories.

Every English village seems to have a particular day when some local tradition is celebrated - and the celebratory food is often pie.

People want to think of a food tradition as something that would continue unchanging and timeless, unless some outside force knocked things askew.

But instead of being frozen in time, I want to show that “local” and “authentic” food are as much creations of modernity as survivors from before it. Authenticity is therefore a problem, not something we can ever depend on as some kind of naturally occurring category. Tradition is crafted, just as much as modernity is manufactured.

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

When Sweetu wasn’t being reduced to merely existing as a bride, as a piece of meat to be handled and prodded, to have decorative contraptions stuck into her skull, her interests were otherwise unexpressed. She rarely complained, hardly asked for anything, and maybe that’s because Indian girls grow up going to weddings and we watch the procedure and we know our roles: be demure, don’t complain, cry but don’t scream, get tea for anyone older than you, and calmly meet expectations.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Oh, how our traditions limit and outcast those of us who aren't normal.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.