Dan Barber famous quotes

04-14-2025

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

#Flavor #Ecology #Pursue
The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.
-- Dan Barber

#Support #Realization #Lessons
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

#Vegetables #Perspective #Cows
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

#Agriculture #Needs #Alternatives
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
-- Dan Barber

#Vegetables #Withdrawal #Soil
It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
-- Dan Barber

#Sacrifice #World #Process
In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.
-- Dan Barber

#Agriculture #Understanding #Ingredients
I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.
-- Dan Barber

#Doctors #Environmentalist
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

#Thinking #Looks #Habitat
I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
-- Dan Barber

#Thinking #Flavor #Ethics
I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'
-- Dan Barber

#Motivation #Inspiration #Feeding
It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.
-- Dan Barber

#Motivation #Inspiration #Fifteen
For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.
-- Dan Barber

#Motivation #Inspiration #Cutting

You may also like: