Best 19 quotes of Dan Barber on MyQuotes

Clean plates don't lie.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point.

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.