“I wrote this book because, with 30 years in the field, I wanted to understand why policy makers were ignoring the low-cost solutions all around them, demonstrated by their own small-scale farmers.”
Source: Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food
“There is nothing in the world that good food cannot fix.”
Source: Crazy Rich Asians
“At the fairgrounds we saw them in the parking lot inhaling the effluvium of carnival, the smells of fried dough, caramel and cinnamon, the flap-flapping of tents, a carousel plinking out music-box songs, voluptuous sounds bouncing down tent ropes and along the trampled dust of the midway. Wind-curled handbills staple-gunned to telephone poles, the hum of gas-powered generators and the gyro truck, the lemonade truck, pretzels and popcorn, baked potatoes, the American flag, the rumblings of rides and the disconnected screams of riders -- all of it shimmered before them like a mirage, something not quite real.”
Source: The Shell Collector
“The dining-room was curiously impersonal, like all places where people eat,—perhaps because food is our chief link with the common chaos of matter rolling about us.”
Source: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“Most recipes try to rush the process, promising to wrap things up & get the dish on the table in a couple of hours. These days recipes are steeped in the general sense of panic about time & so have tried to speed things up, the better to suit our busy lives.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“This ambivalence about the value of cooking raises an interesting question: Has our culture devalued food-work because it is unfulfilling by it's very nature or because it has traditionally been "women's work"?”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“The Good-Morrow
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then?
But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dreame of thee.
And now good morrow to our waking soules,
Which watch not one another out of feare;
For love, all love of other sights controules,
And makes one little roome, an every where.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,
Let us possesse one world; each hath one, and is one.
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,
And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest,
Where can we finde two better hemispheares
Without sharpe North, without declining West?
What ever dyes, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.”
Source: The Complete English Poems
“Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home, the lower it's rate of obesity.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“Cheese is all about the dark side of life" - Sister Noella; aka The Cheese Nun”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation