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• ‟ If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

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• ‟ We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

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• ‟ American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.

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• ‟ If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

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• ‟ My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

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• ‟ Writing about food is my default.

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• ‟ I don't think I hate any food trends.

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• ‟ Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

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• ‟ The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

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• ‟ I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

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• ‟ One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.

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• ‟ You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.

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• ‟ I was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went to Los Angeles. It moved to New York, and I went there.

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• ‟ The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about.

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• ‟ The truth is, as much as I loved writing restaurant reviews, it always felt very self-indulgent to me. It was so much fun, I loved doing it, but there's so much else to say about food.

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