"I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood."
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"I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife."
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"Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables."
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"It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable."
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"Just washed, How chill The white leeks!"
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"It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly."
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"Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals."
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"Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair."
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"Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species."
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"Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers."
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"My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower."
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"The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable."
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"My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold."
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"Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables."
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"Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew"
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"I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food."
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"Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self.""
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"The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans."
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"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."
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"It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat."
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