Quotes About Eating Local

#1. Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. I mean, some people accuse me of being racist. I'm totally not, I'm just better than everybody else.

Zach Braff

#3. My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Anton Du Beke

#4. The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or petty bureaucratic intrusions.

Douglas Wilson

#5. It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

Jane Birkin

#6. I was eating a steak at a local restaurant last night, when a random woman said: "Y'know, you'd be much better off being a vegetarian." "Are you crazy?" I said, "The cow was a vegetarian and look what happened to it!

Quentin R. Bufogle

#7. Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#8. Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.

Michael Pollan

#9. One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

Anthony Head

#10. Supporting local farmers is important to me, which is not only good for the local economy and better for the environment, there is evidence that eating locally grown food strengthens your immune system.

Suzanne Whang

#11. Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

James Weldon Johnson

#12. Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

Ridley Scott

#13. Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.

Jose Aldo

#14. And I told Father Flood that since I would already be getting my reward in heaven, I have that nicely arranged, thank you, he owes me a favour that I would like repaid on this earth.

Colm Toibin

#15. PSA37.32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. PSA37.33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Anonymous

#16. Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.

Jacques Pepin

#17. What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.

Tyler Cowen

#19. Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan,

Michael Pollan