Jose Andres Puerta Quotes

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America.

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.

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.

Kids today are really so alienated from the source of food. If they are going to nourish themselves properly, if they are going to safeguard this environment we have and the economy that goes with it and world hunger that goes with it, they need to know about food.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

Farm to table is a personal choice.

All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

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

I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.

Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.

We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.

Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

It's so easy to produce food, throw it away, and watch people starve. It's so hard to produce food mindfully and to feed and to reduce waste.

For me, creating a supply chain of what we should be eating is incredibly complicated. It's complicated to figure out how to change the food system in America.