“Food goes bad because of life: the life that lingers in its cells after the organism dies and the life takes over the body of the dead. Preventing that life prevents decomposition.”
Source: Ingredients The Strange Chemistry of Plants, Poisons and Processed Foods
“it doesn't matter for you to work harder. but, it does matter for you to make yourself more happier. you deserve to be lazy sometimes, travel to your favorite place, eat your favorite food, drink your coffee and think "i am the one who has to be happy first”
“Now, I was unemployed in Beijing, and my former ambition seemed like the pollution that smudged the sky, a great green cloud composed of a billion different particles of fear and uncertainty. Without a career I hardly knew who I was anymore.”
Source: Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
“No one is too busy to cook.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It is not about learning to like this or that vegetable; but developing an overall attitude to eating that is more open to variety and less governed by the simple sugar-salt-fat palate of junk food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“We are stuck in habits and attitudes that seem impossible to break. We are stuck thinking food is love. We are stuck with guilt about food because we are female; or stuck not liking vegetables because we are male. We are stuck feeding hungers that often exist more in our brain than our stomach. We are stuck in our happy childhood memories of unhealthy foods. But the biggest way we are stuck is in our belief that our eating habits are something we can do very little about. In fact, we can do plenty. The first step is seeing that eating is a skill that each of us learns and that we retain the capacity for learning it, no matter how old we are.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Every meal should be a small celebration”
Source: The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
“Dietary change comes not from forcing someone to eat what they do not like, but in helping them to discover their own passions.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“A sensory education seems to have the potential to free up a child from many of the old barriers to trying new food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat