Food Understanding Quotes

I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to understand food better.

A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.

I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

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

There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.