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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."
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"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."

"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."

"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."

"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."

"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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