Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 Image
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 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
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
