Dan Barber Quotes

United States, Chef
1969

Dan Barber is a chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York. He is a 1992 graduate of Tufts University, where he received a B. A. in English, and a graduate of the French Culinary Institute. He is married to Aria Sloss, a short story writer, novelist and former food writer. He is the author of The Third Plate.

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

Dan Barber
- World
- Process
- Sacrifice
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

Dan Barber
- Perspective
- Grass
- Soil

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

Dan Barber
- Good
- Great
- Ethics
People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

Dan Barber
- People
- True
- Food
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

Dan Barber
- World
- Great
- Food
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Dan Barber
- Bank
- Soil
- Vegetables
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.

Dan Barber
- World
- Good
- Future
When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

Dan Barber
- Great
- You
- Flavor

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

Dan Barber
- Free
- Thing
- Eating
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.

Dan Barber
- Free
- Energy
- Food
I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

Dan Barber
- Doctor
- Nutritionist