Barbara Kingsolver - Food Quotes

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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

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

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

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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

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

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Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

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Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

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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 pleasure.

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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

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

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