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How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.
Michael Pollan
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It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
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Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.
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If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.
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To eat well, you either have to invest money or time. If you can put in some time, the raw ingredients are not that expensive. You can eat extremely well on a budget.
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One of my rules is pay more, eat less. You do get what you pay for, and if you're willing to pay more for pastured eggs or grass-fed beef, you're getting something that's more delicious, and you'll feel better about eating it.
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The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.
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Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot.
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Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.
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Eat a wide variety of species.
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We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.
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We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.
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