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Jonathan Safran Foer Quote

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

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About Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.