Dan Barber

Clean plates don't lie.

— Dan Barber

“Seeds, Sex & Civilization, Peter Thompson”

— Dan Barber

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

— Dan Barber

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

— Dan Barber

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

— Dan Barber

People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

— Dan Barber

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

— Dan Barber

I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

— Dan Barber

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

— Dan Barber

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

— Dan Barber

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective,…

— Dan Barber

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

— Dan Barber

“of some nutrients than we need in an attempt to get enough of others to meet our basic nutritional requirements,” Ikerd once…

— Dan Barber

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

— Dan Barber

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big…

— Dan Barber

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need…

— Dan Barber

“With few ingrained food habits, Americans are among the least tradition-bound of food cultures, easily swayed by fashions and influences from other…

— Dan Barber

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're…

— Dan Barber

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent…

— Dan Barber

“Then he discovered the library’s collection of agriculture books, which included works by Sir Albert Howard and Rudolf Steiner. “I read them…

— Dan Barber

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a…

— Dan Barber

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously…

— Dan Barber

In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can…

— Dan Barber

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free…

— Dan Barber

At the end of the day, yes. It's all about the marbling and maybe a few other things along the way. But…

— Dan Barber

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very…

— Dan Barber

“modern agriculture has thoroughly separated the agri from the culture. They’ve killed the meaning of the word—bifurcated it, completely, in just the…

— Dan Barber

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships…

— Dan Barber