Food Quote by Tyler Florence

I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not caused by…

— Tyler Cowen

“Locavore" may have been the 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year, but there's already been a word for those whose diets…

— Brett Martin

“In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it,…

— Andi Ashworth

The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care…

— Alice Waters

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

— Marcella Hazan

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are…

— Wendell Berry

As a chef, I've always been very conscious and very thoughtful about the way that I buy food or have my farmers produce it.

— Dominique Crenn

Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal. It is…

— Monty Don

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

— Jose Andres

Our commitment to serving produce from local farms and other sustainable sources is one of the ways we are changing the way people think…

— Steve Ells

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

— Wendell Berry

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

— Tom Vilsack