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- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
- American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since…
- We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending…
- People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human…
- The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
- Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to…
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
- The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it,…
- When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of…
- ...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more…
- Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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