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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-01-13:

"You can get kind of cynical on a lot of it, but, on the other hand, I think in some ways there is a lot more good food in the country than there ever was, and I always say that it's because of the Immigration Act of 1965, which replaced a policy that actually let in more people from Great Britain who wanted to come at the expense of the Chinese. That's a suicidal policy when it comes to food, a national quota system based on favoring England and northern Europe, basically on the theory that people who eat bland food make better citizens than other people. It took a few years for the effect to be felt, but now you might go to a town in Iowa and find a Laotian restaurant or something, you know, because there are clumps of people all over the place." -- Calvin Trillin, in an interview from The New Yorker, September 6, 2004.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/09/06/040906on_onlineonly01?currentPage=2]

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