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"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."
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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."
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"Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?"
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"The best meals are those prepared by loving hands."
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"I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking."
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"I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking."
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"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."
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"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."
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"I just get all jacked up when we start cooking."
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"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."
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"I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel."
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"More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most."
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"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
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"Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about."
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"So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer."
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"There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with."
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"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
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"I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not."
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"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."
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"By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle."
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"Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north."
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