Mark Bittman Quotes

• I got into cooking out of self-defense.

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  Self, Cooking, Defense

  "Mark Bittman’s answers to our food questions". Q&As, blog.seattlepi.com. January 10, 2009.

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• This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

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  Stuff, Plant, Evidence

  "How Has The American Diet Changed Over Time?". "TED Radio Hour" wuth Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 17, 2016.

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• Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.

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  Should, Cooks

  Mark Bittman (2011). “How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

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  Real, Broken, Reform

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.48, Clarkson Potter

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• If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.

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  Environmental, Junk, Weight

  Mark Bittman (2008). “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion.... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.

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  Running, Government, Issues

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• I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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• The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot.

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  Fake, Healthy, Alternatives

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.98, Clarkson Potter

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• 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.

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  Struggle, Fighting, Years

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• Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

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  Years, Acting, Junk

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• The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

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  Hands, Allies, Meat

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• 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

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  Motivational, Food, People

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• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

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  Swimming, Filth, Salmon

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

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  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

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  Heart, Simple, Animal

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.58, Clarkson Potter

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• Your 'Pringle' contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better for you than a snickers.

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  Ice Cream, Cereal, Bars

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• It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

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  Memories, Short Memory

  "'Spain... on the road Again' ('A Sultan’s View of Andalucía')". TV show, November 08, 2008.

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• If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.

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  Shopping, Green, Driving

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• Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

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  Kings, Corn, Collaboration

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• I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn't even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Years

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• Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception.

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  Years, Gluten, Vegan

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• We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.

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  Needs, Soda, Way

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• Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.

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  Beer, Cake, Feelings

  Mark Bittman (2008). “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be

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  Evil, Meat, Littles

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• I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.

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  Kindness, Nice, Thinking

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