I love eating junk food
“I love eating junk food. I’m a huge snacker, chips and candy.”
Quotes
This is a collection of quotes about food by people familiar to the culinary world and not.
The most successful person is the one who is
“The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.”
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be
“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.”
I will never use a substitute for butter
“I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I’m going to eat that type of food, it’s going to be the real deal.”
When we go to the store we bring home more than food
“When we go to the store, we bring home more than food – we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.”
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The workers who harvest our food have been
“The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.”
Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness
“Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home and eating it.”
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Go to the grocery store and buy better things
“Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that’s going to increase the quality of the food you make.”
Meals make the society hold the fabric together in
“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.”
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