"We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is ...
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"Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredien...
"It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounde...
"If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monocu...
"The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking...
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what...
"When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I ...
"Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us p...
"High-quality food is better for your health.
"Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he ...
"We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.
"One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of responsibility, between our...
"For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people y...
"Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most importa...
"Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves...