Dan Barber quotes

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology. (Dan Barber)

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

Dan Barber

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

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

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

Dan Barber

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

I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

Dan Barber

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

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Dan Barber

Dan Barber

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Occupation: American Chef
Born: 1969
Quotes count: 9

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