Quotes About Food

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

High-quality food is better for your health.

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

"Industrial organic" might sound like an oxymoron, but it is a reality.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

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.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

They also found extra payments for threshing, gifts of wheat, food and drink at mid-day, a bonus for working in the rain: all put down to general expenses but going to the workers.

Stop it. I'm sure she looks more like herself than she looks like me." "No, no. You must come see now. She buys my pupusas!" "Your what?" "My pupusas!" "Katerina—" "Jean?

The transgression of Adam and Eve was not in learning the difference between good and evil but in treating the knowledge they received as something that was, literally, internal to them-a food that could be seized, devoured, and controlled by the individual.

Haven't you heard – fat isn't the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.

buy a cup of tea from the dining car, along with a 'gourmet' sandwich which is evidence of how culinary words can be devalued.

He carried the deep, intuitive understanding of the power of food to connect people, knew that food was not simply a device for entertaining or filling our bodies and pleasing our senses but rather that it served as a direct channel to the greater pleasures of being alive, and that it could be so only when that food was shared with friends and lovers and family.

There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I'd say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our system and our food supply. It doesn't have to be like that.