Mary Berry Quotes

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

We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.

If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

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 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.

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.'

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

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

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

Farm to table is a personal choice.

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

We have already broken the link between food production and population. This will soon be complete.

Most people don't know where their food comes from. We're confused about the fundamentals. How does our food wind up on our plates? How exactly is it that, when I flick the switch, the lights come on?

Food never ends. It's one of the greatest things about working on food - we're always going to need food.

We undervalue food in this country, yet Britain has beautiful food and beautiful growing conditions. It is astonishing the range we can grow.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

I want to know what my food has been eating.

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.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.