Dana Goodyear

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food. ”

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am. ”

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

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. ”

I love trying new restaurants. ”

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump. ”

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader. ”

I was terrified of taking the G.R.E. ”

Food is a lens for culture. ”

Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity. ”