Food Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I think of my canning as fast food, paid for in time up front.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The longer the sauce cooks, the spicier it gets.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our…

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“If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the…

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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a…

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“Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily…

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“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

“The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“When my generation of women walked away from the kitchen we were escorted down that path by a profiteering industry that knew…

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“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

“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

“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

“Both vitamin pills and vegetables are loaded with essential nutrients, but not in the same combinations. Spinach is a good source of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] On the other hand, if cattle remain on pasture right to the end, that kind…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Oh, America the Beautiful, where are our standards? How did Europeans, ancestral cultures to most of us, whose average crowded country would…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Tortolita, let me tell you a story,” Estevan said. “This is a South American, wild Indian story about heaven and hell.” Mrs.…

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“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

“A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps…

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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient,…

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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a…

— Barbara Kingsolver