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Quotes About Food

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.
~ Alex Atala
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
~ Bill Mollison
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
~ Athenaeus
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
~ Michael Pollan
The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.
~ Isabella Beeton
Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.
~ David Holmgren
To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
~ Roland Barthes
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
~ Michael Pollan
If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
~ Catherine Opie
Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.
~ Dean William R. Inge
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
~ Craig Venter
Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.
~ Mommy Moo Moo
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.
~ Mark Strand
It's all about patience and persistence - you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!
~ Michelle Obama
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
~ Lin Yutang
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
~ W. C. Brann
Peace will come to the world when the people have enough noodles to eat.
~ Momofuku Ando
Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.
~ Joseph Estrada
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
~ Peter Ustinov
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
~ T. Casey Brennan
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
~ Anne Tyler
Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.
~ Jim Gaffigan