Arthur Potts Dawson Quotes

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

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

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

I think it's important for children to know where their food comes from and how much work it takes to produce the items we eat in our home.

The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.

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.

Most of my education has been around food.

Be mindful of what supermarkets are doing and demand to see their business practices. Stop throwing away food. Compost as much as you can, eat as locally and as seasonally as you can. Share knowledge and information.

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

I never cooked before I became vegan. Preparing a meal as opposed to ordering in all the time, you start thinking about where your food comes from and how it gets to your table. You notice that chain.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.

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.

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.

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.

Nutritionists have known for some time now that in order to get people to change what they eat, we need to provide them with more access to affordable, healthy food as well as information on how to cook and prepare it.

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.

I'm a chef, so I really like knowing where my food is coming from.

Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important.

The key thing is to educate not just kids but adults about what goes into food. You do that in any way you can, bread machine or not.

The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food comes from.

We want our communities to know what real food is.

I would like to help people cook more.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.