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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.
The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.
You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food.
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.
People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.
Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I promise.
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.
Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable.
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.
The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.
In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.
People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.
We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.
To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're also going to be a lot healthier.
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.