Louise Fresco Quotes
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.
Quotes to Explore
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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Food can change anything.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
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Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.
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It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.
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There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.
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There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.
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Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.
