“...despite seemingly scientific origins, dietary ideals are cultural, subjective, and political. While its primary aim may be to improve health, the process of teaching people to ‘eat right’ inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects, and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of the ever-threatened American middle class.”
Source: Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
“But that cold soup stayed with me. It resonated, waking me up, making me aware of my tongue, and in some way, preparing me for future events.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Everything was different now. Everything. I'd not only survived - I'd enjoyed.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“The tone of the repartee was familiar, as was the subject matter, a strangely comfortable background music to most of my waking hours over the last two decades or so - and I realised that, my God... I've been listening to the same conversation for twenty-five years!”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too.”
Source: Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
“Everyone is in such a good mood when they've eaten well.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“At General Dexterity, I was contributing to an effort to make repetitive labor obsolete. After a trainer in the Task Acquisition Center taught an arm how to do something, all the arms did it perfectly, forever,
In other words, you solved a problem once, and then you moved on to other more interesting things.
Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested.
Thus, the problem was ongoing.
Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.”
Source: Sourdough
“Food could be simple. Food could be anything you wanted, whether the ingredients came from a farmer's market or a convenience store. Food could be fan-freaking-tastic.”
Source: The Undead In My Bed
“Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone else doing the cooking. The single-service packet from the supermarket has replaced the sit-down home-cooked meal as the most common food choice. Easy foodism disengages people from the process and creates a level of food illiteracy unthinkable just a few short decades ago.”
Source: The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation
“How fragile is a world so connected and tied together that a change in food fashion in one place can lead to starvation halfway through the world?”
Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists