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The way you support farmers is by shopping and buying raw ingredients.
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.
I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three.
Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.
Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.
We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.
When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not
The euphemistically named CropLife America speaks for the pesticide industry.
We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.
Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.
Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.
We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.
The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.
Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.
Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.
If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.