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The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. -- Erin McKean
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music. -- Prince Royce
One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners. -- Louis Tomlinson
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list. -- Ben Elliot
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food. -- Alice Waters
I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it. -- Margaret Halsey
You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches. -- Anne Dudley
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother. -- Kaya Scodelario
Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the only Asian kid in my elementary school, and I longed to be like everyone else. I insisted on American food; I was embarrassed by my mother's poor English. -- Tess Gerritsen
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl. -- Robert Knepper
Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling. -- Olly Murs
Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day. -- Todd English
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything. -- George Bernard Shaw
Food, medicine, beauty, and love. When we talk about them in English, -- Alma Hogan Snell
Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food? -- Jon Stewart
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food. -- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. -- John Green
I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time. -- Patrice Evra
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them. -- Mary Ellen Chase

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