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• ‟ The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.

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• ‟ A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

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• ‟ When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.

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• ‟ I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

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• ‟ First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.

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• ‟ I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

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• ‟ I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

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• ‟ We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

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• ‟ I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

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• ‟ Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

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• ‟ Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That's what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.

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• ‟ I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

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• ‟ We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

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• ‟ I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

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• ‟ The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

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• ‟ I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.

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• ‟ I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

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• ‟ I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

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• ‟ Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

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• ‟ The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

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• ‟ I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.

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• ‟ The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

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• ‟ Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

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• ‟ If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

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• ‟ We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.

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• ‟ Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

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• ‟ In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

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• ‟ A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.

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