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" You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. "

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" Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating. "

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" It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. "

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" If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food. "

" American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine. "

" I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop. "

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" The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. "

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