“There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I’d say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our system and our food supply. It doesn’t have to be like that.” — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share
“It seems to me that all these factors—from the industrialization of our food to the belief that cooking for our family is a chore rather than a fundamental luxury with unrecognized benefits for the people we love—are directly responsible for our food-related diseases and illnesses, and what will ultimately drive our need to turn our food confusion into knowledge and… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share
“He carried the deep, intuitive understanding of the power of food to connect people, knew that food was not simply a device for entertaining or filling our bodies and pleasing our senses but rather that it served as a direct channel to the greater pleasures of being alive, and that it could be so only when that food was shared… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share
“Right now prepared foods account for 4 to 6 percent of our sales,” Carin told me. “In Chicago, that number is 8 percent. And I expect it will see double-digit growth, which is unheard of in any other department.” “What accounts for the growth?” I asked. “The driving force is women in the workforce and how much time people have,”… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share
“And we’re going to be here for fifty years, so whatever is not right, we’ll get right.” — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
“Living in this world will change you,” she confides. “It makes me value life. When a friend has a healthy baby, I don’t think… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
“As a culture,” Pollan writes, “we seem to have arrived at a place where whatever native wisdom we may once have possessed about eating… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
“More troubling is that when faced with an array of complex options,” the article says, “consumers tend to throw reason out the window and… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
“The social food researcher Harry Balzer noted without prompting that Americans are not cooking more, they’re simply eating more meals at home.” — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the recent hunger for handcrafted foods, they remain a niche market within the grocery store. America simply didn’t have many centuries during… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
