Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I think of my canning as fast food, paid for in time up front.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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
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
“I’ve heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that’s no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Twenty pounds of tomatoes will cook down into a pot of tomato sauce that fits into five one-quart freezer boxes, good for… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“What kind of weirdo makes cheese? It's too hard to imagine, too homespun, too something. We're so alienated from the creation of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles…If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago.… — 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
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We're a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating are taking a dire… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Our bodies aren't adapted to absorb big loads of nutrients all at once (many supplements surpass RDA values by 200 percent or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When my generation of women walked away from the kitchen we were escorted down that path by a profiteering industry that knew… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Absence of that knowledge has rendered us a nation of wary label-readers, oddly uneasy in our obligate relationship with the things we… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] On the other hand, if cattle remain on pasture right to the end, that kind… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Both vitamin pills and vegetables are loaded with essential nutrients, but not in the same combinations. Spinach is a good source of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But humans have a built-in weakness for fats and sugar. We evolved in lean environments where it was a big plus for… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Tortolita, let me tell you a story,” Estevan said. “This is a South American, wild Indian story about heaven and hell.” Mrs.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Oh, America the Beautiful, where are our standards? How did Europeans, ancestral cultures to most of us, whose average crowded country would… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. — 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
“A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it.” — 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
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with… — 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
![“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] On the other hand, if cattle remain on pasture right to the end, that kind of beef is called "grass finished." The difference between this and CAFO beef are not just relevant to how kindly you feel about animals: meat and eggs of pastured animals also have a…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c99/barbara-kingsolver-200_beef_from-an-entry-by-her-daughter-camille-on_2657613.png)
