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“Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.”

Wells Different Matter Culture Food Fuel Rome Representation

Author:Mario Batali

“The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.”

Firsts Wells Fun Food Cooking Meals Fuel Consideration Culinary

Author:Andre Simon

“In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.”

Half Food Produce Huge Amount Fuel Zone Pollution Fossils Corn Corny Fossil Fuel Contributing Poisoning Erosion Gallons Burning Fossil Fuels Food Poisoning Dead Zone

Author:Michael Pollan

“It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”

People Culture House Food Cold Cooking Hunger Hungry Fuel Culinary Homeless Old People

Book:American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power

Source: American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power

“Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.”

Giving Body Food Building Materials Fishes Fats Fuel Chickens Genes Beef Raw Materials Fish Tanks Fried Food Body Fat

Author:Neal Barnard

“Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”

“Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.”

Wells Community Family Identity Food Eating Journalism Fuel Nutrition Nourishment About Family

Author:Michael Pollan

“... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.”

Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly