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 g…

- Dan Barber

Clean plates don't lie.

- Dan Barber

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.

- Dan Barber

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

- Dan Barber

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

- Dan Barber

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.

- Dan Barber

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

- Dan Barber

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 rel…

- Dan Barber

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

- Dan Barber