Real Food Quotes

• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is
  ingredients.

  Jamie Oliver

  Real, Ingredients

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• Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.

  Suzanne Somers

  Real, Sea, Bags

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• Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.1, Penguin

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• One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Eating Good

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• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Eating Well, Dieting

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

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• When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Revolutionary, Trouble

  "The Last Diet You Will Ever Need" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2012.

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• You are what what you eat eats.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Healthy Eating, Eating

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.112, Penguin

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• The real food is not being advertised.

  Michael Pollan

  Real

  "Michael Pollan:'Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised'". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2009.

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• Our bodies don't know how to digest these 'food like' products resulting in stress and weight gain! Nourish your body with real foods and it will shine for you.

  Jason Vale

  Real, Stress, Shining

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• If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

  Joel Salatin

  Real, Ifs

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• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

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• Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.

  Jamie Oliver

  Children, Real, School

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• The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Animal, Community

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.156, Penguin

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Get Well, Yoga

  The Spectator Vol. V, No. 387 (1712)

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• Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Corn Syrup, Oil

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

  Michael Pollan

  Rotting, Incapable

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.101, Penguin

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• Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

  Nigel Slater

  Real, Nice, Cooking

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Home Cooking

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• The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, Health, Science

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• Favour fresh, real food. You can be assured that you are offering your body anti-inflammatory nutrician.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Healing, Health

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.94, Random House

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• There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

  Mark Bittman

  Real, Broken, Reform

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.48, Clarkson Potter

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