“Now that I’m not a restaurant critic, I’m able to go frequently to the restaurants I love.”
“The most interesting thing to me is the context in which real people sit down at real tables and eat real food.”
“I go to their houses; they teach me their recipes.”
“A food and agriculture system that’s good for the climate [is also] a system that’s better for people.”
“With this one straw, we could change the whole degenerative momentum of modern agriculture.”
“There’s no substitute for getting your hands dirty,” says this longtime cheesemaker.
“If done in the right location and at the right scale, livestock farming is a very valuable part of food production.”
“You have to like to work hard, you have to like to get dirty.”
“Good, healthy food is a human right.”
“My children have never had a hamburger.”
“If you know a little science, it makes your life so much easier.”
“City people moving to the country is kind of a horrible idea.”
“It’s easy to dismiss Southern food as nothing but grease and grits.”
“Slow-cooker books for cooking with a Crock-Pot — those are really popular.”
“Gourmet cooking is for everybody, not just chefs.”
“We must stop ordering takeout from the other side of the continent.”
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“You have to at least question the brands that are coming your way.”
“We frame our thinking about food and drink every day without even really knowing we’re doing it.”
“I’m asking here only for a revolution, you know.”
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