Quotes About Community

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Food is the place where you begin.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

To get people to eat well don't say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food.

Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

Food is a great way of communicating.