Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.