I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food
My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."
I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.
If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.
In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?
Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.
The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals
Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.
A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.
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