Farmers Markets Quotes

• Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

  G. Garvin

  Simple, Cooking, Looks

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• Look at our farmers markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.

  Jose Andres

  Roots, America, Community

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• I think much of my inspiration comes from nature. I feel alive when I take a long hike with my dog or when I just spend time outdoors, appreciating the beauty of this world. I even feel alive and inspired when I walk through farmers markets appreciating and learning about local fruits and vegetables.

  Amanda Schull

  Dog, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

  Jerry Brown

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.

  Alice Waters

  Real, Land, People

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• People should go to their local grocery store or farmers' market and buy ugly, misshapen foods, then cook with them and document their dishes. And share not only the funny-looking foods, but the fantastic results.

  Dana Cowin

  People, Ugly, Fantastic

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Cities, Towns, Decline

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• The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Choices, Needs

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

  Joel Salatin

  Government, Next Week, Knowing

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• Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

  Michael Symon

  Quality, Natural, Increase

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• Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking.

  Tom Colicchio

  Home, Mean, Cooking

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• We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Trying, Needs

  "Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Favourite, Source, Farmers

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• Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Vegetables, Free Food, Source

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• I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

  Keira Knightley

  London, Organic Food, Farmers

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Couple, Writing

  "The GQ Cover Story: Katy Perry" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 21, 2014.

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• We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Running, Jobs, Business

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.187, Nation Books

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• Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. Im crazy about L.A. because at the farmers market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Crazy, Italian, Vegetables

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• When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.

  David Schwimmer

  Running, Zoos, Years

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

  Thomas Frank

  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• My husband and I have just really been on this journey to live cleaner and eat healthier and allow our children to see us doing that so that's the kind of lifestyle they'll want for themselves. Just a healthier, aware, conscious life. Now we buy organic, we go to the farmers markets. We really try to involve the kids in cutting up the vegetables, cleaning them, preparing the meals, just making it fun.

  Ali Landry

  Children, Fun, Husband

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• In L.A., it's very easy to be healthy, because everybody there is so health conscious that no matter where you go, everybody is exercising or eating very healthy, and they have a lot of farmers markets. The problem is when you go on location or I go home to Wisconsin. That's where it gets difficult.

  Laura Ramsey

  Home, Exercise, Healthy

  "Laura Ramsey, Hindsight Actor Interview: Failure and Growth". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

  Brie Larson

  Real, Rejection, Feelings

  "Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood — and Fix It" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.vulture.com. June 1, 2014.

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