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" Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family. "

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" The Kitchen was a really great concept; it just wasn't at the price point that made it accessible to people. People could visit occasionally, and some people were coming regularly. It just wasn't a novel concept for every customer. "

" If you come to The Kitchen and get a pork chop with polenta, which is our kind of food - simple - there is only one way it should taste at The Kitchen. "

" It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that. "

" When you have the demand, you can change the government policies that create McDonald's and junk food. "

" The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience. "

" We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food. "

" It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked. "

" A lot of people think about food as fuel, where you need to get nutrients in your body. "

" Learning Gardens are outdoor classrooms, engaging learning environments where kids learn about math, science, entrepreneurship, and above all else, real food. "

" Tesla Motor's original business plan had a copy of a letter from Nikola Tesla from the late 19th century talking about the challenges inherent in gasoline engines and the promise of the electric engine. "

" Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it. "

" We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet. "

" It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food. "

" I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences. "

" Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense. "

" My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on. "

" I want to make the school-garden movement work. "

" The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food. "

" People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society. "

" The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space. "

" Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community. "

" My goal is to go from the industrial food system toward a real food system where you understand what you are eating. "

" People always ask what kind of restaurant we have, and it's like a five-minute conversation. The short answer is, 'We're creating community through food.' That's the big idea we had, the product we're exporting. And it has paid off. "

" Everyone has to eat, so the opportunities in the space are incredible. "

" The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing. "

" Young people, especially, are turning away from McDonald's towards healthy, locally-sourced options like Next Door and Sweetgreen. "

" Boulder should be next to the word 'community' in the dictionary. "

" For me, creating a supply chain of what we should be eating is incredibly complicated. It's complicated to figure out how to change the food system in America. "

" After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet. "

" The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone. "