Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
