Mark Kurlansky Quotes

How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.

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

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

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

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.

There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.

I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.