Vegetables Quotes - Page 26

• One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

  Michael Pollan

  Eating, Illness, Scientist

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.195, Penguin

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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

  Free Food, Source, Boxes

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• There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

  Chellie Pingree

  Garden, Knitting, Phones

  "What I've Learned: Representative Chellie Pingree (D, Maine)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

  Chellie Pingree

  Crops, Ask Me, Specialty

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• My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.

  Vince Cable

  Shopping, Wife, Cooking

  "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

  Greg Peterson

  School, Reality, Garden

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• I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now...All my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, believe it or not, more energy.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Blood, Feel Good

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• ... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Garden, Thinking

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

  Janelle Monae

  Stress, Thinking, Play

  "Janelle Monáe on Her Diet, Hair and Beauty Swagger". www.glamour.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Simple, Cooking

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• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  Patrick Duffy

  Night, Dinner

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Oil, Chinese

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• Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Next, Plant

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Oil

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• When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Country, Hippie, America

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

  Noah Wyle

  Thanksgiving, Horse, Holiday

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• Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Wine, Half

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• The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients is supplied in an easily assimilated form, so the digestive tract is able to remain essentially at rest. It is only through the combined use of both cleansing processes, and a very good diet, that one will be able to reach her or his maximal level of physical health and an unclouded consciousness.

  Rudolph Ballentine

  Successful, Technique, Fasting

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• I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Inspiration, Water, Wife

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• There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.

  Melissa Hartwig

  Substance, Fruit, Grain

  Dallas Hartwig, Melissa Hartwig (2014). “It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways”, p.127, Victory Belt Publishing

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• Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Roots, Different, Peculiar

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.56, Editorial MAXTOR

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• I recently have gotten into juicing as an in-between-meals snack. I think the more vegetable ingredients the better, especially if they are green. I find that a good juice can really curb my appetite when I need to wait for the next meal.

  Noureen DeWulf

  Thinking, Snacks, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Believe, Science

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• Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.

  Daryl Hannah

  Garden, Trying, Taste

  "GREEN / Daryl Hannah Speaks Out" by Gregory Dicum, www.sfgate.com. May 3, 2006.

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• The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

  Lisa Loeb

  Night, Order, Feta Cheese

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