39 Quotes by Dan Barber

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

Clean plates don’t lie.

In the rush to industrialize farming, we’ve lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

It’s a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

We’re achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that’s been passed down for generations but we’re still using technology.