Michael Symon
Related Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish a... JOHN LINDSAY DON RICKLES The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres. CHUCK INGLISH Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and t... JOHN V. LINDSAY BOB COUSY I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native America... BOB GREENE The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and ... GABRIELLA WILDE ALESSIA CARA America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for e... ERIC RIPERT ACTION BRONSON ISRAEL ZANGWILL JEFFREY FRY I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a c... PHILIP GLASS BRUNO MARS J. J. WATT I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself. PATRICK SOON-SHIONG America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron. BARBARA MIKULSKI JESSE JACKSON TIGER WOODS I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. BOB GREENE DOUGLAS CONANT Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordin... NICK OFFERMAN ISRAEL ZANGWILL ISRAEL ZANGWILL I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it&... MACKENZIE DAVIS America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ... IVAN KRASTEV The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We do... STEVE STOUTE AL PACINO London was a melting pot. It was only one person [who did this]. But a lot of other things came to t... LIAM STEEL New York's food scene is truly unique because it is this wonderful melting pot where immigrants ... DANIEL HUMM QUINCY JONES BOBBY JINDAL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING TOM WOLFE CINDY MARGOLIS Bowl food is comfort food with a twist. It's not just baby back ribs with barbecue sauce, it's Asian... ELIZABETH SIMON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM ELIOT SPITZER DEYTH BANGER C. JOYBELL C. Here the melting-pot stands open if you're willing to get bleached first. BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE Here the melting-pot stands open — if you're willing to get bleached first. BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubara... SHEREEN EL FEKI On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segre... GURINDER CHADHA ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite ... TOBIN BELL JESSE JACKSON TERRY PRATCHETT This Melting Pot of ours absorbs the second generation over a flame so high that the first is left e... JOHN TARKOV We don't have real-life exposure to other cultures. We think we live in a melting pot of a country, ... DENA SAMUELS The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could li... ROSE BYRNE LAUREN MYRACLE In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back ... GREG GUTFELD My favorite meal is I'll make like a three-bean soup and I freeze half of it. But I'm also a... KATHY FRESTON The fact is that sports is not this big melting pot of upward mobility and opportunity and meritocra... EARL SMITH Vail is a melting pot. In any community this diverse, there's going to to be bigotry, and there's bi... JOSH LAUTENBERG This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this coun... JANE ELLIOTT It is hard to distinguish between Islamism, radicalism and terrorism in one and the same melting pot... ALEXANDER KALUGIN Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. I... IAN ANTHONY DALE It's kind of a melting pot that's always full of flames. GREG BRUNNER AMY TAN LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI You can’t be the "melting pot" if one or some ingredients refuse to intertwine with the rest. You�... C. A. MCCAY It's a melting pot. There's so much talent here and such a large variety that you never see the same... LARRY LANG JIMMY CARTER I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. LEIGH LEZARK SANDRA LEE A boxing gym is a melting pot. In my gym, I have Palestinians training next to Israelis. I have men ... BRUCE SILVERGLADE Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well i... CHARLOTTE LE BON CHRISSY TEIGEN I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find Ne... CARMEN EJOGO DAVID CAMERON PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA ESPERANZA SPALDING We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. ... DENISE MINA For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, We... BIG SEAN ALICE WATERS In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state. RICK SCOTT ISRAEL ZANGWILL JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY RACHEL NICHOLS We were the first melting pot city in America. It's striking that those great waves of immigration f... LAWRENCE POWELL CRAIG GROESCHEL For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA ARCHIE PANJABI MARCUS SAMUELSSON To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think ab... EMILY DESCHANEL I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of... SOPHIE MCSHERA CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE DONNA LYNN HOPE I noticed it traveling with our team. We?re the only team that has coaches from three other countrie... ALLISON BAVER We are a true melting pot, and we made it work. It's really important that Moss Point embrace that i... KATHY MURRAY KELLY ROWLAND The artists were referring to their own traditions, but because of the melting pot of the group they... ANGUS CAMERON So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT The reality of Britain is vibrant multiculturalism, but the myth we export is an all-white world of ... RIZ AHMED If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. 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