33 Quotes by Nell Newman

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.