Unprocessed Quotes

“The tasks we have decided to label mundane—as tasks!—are that which accumulate into relationships and memories. Cooking dinner or helping your kids with homework. If what we do every day is more important than what we do once in a while, then outsourcing our day-to-day demands to serve the goals of the once-in-awhile—those big-ticket purchases we save our time and money for—seems like a net loss. A little chipping away at the fullness of life, in all its messiness.”
― Megan Kimble, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food – A Chronicle with Research-Backed Insights and Practical Tips

“in 1954, C. A. Swanson & Sons sold the first microwavable TV dinner”
― Megan Kimble, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food

“We are surrounded by disposables and left with the tired legacy of those who believed the earth to be inexhaustible. O”
― Megan Kimble, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food

“Forty percent of grain grown across the world is fed to animals; if it takes twenty-five gallons of water to grow a pound of wheat, it takes five thousand gallons of freshwater to produce a pound of steak. Put another way, it takes ten thousand pounds of grain (really, corn) to grow a thousand-pound cow.”
― Megan Kimble, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food

“The philosophy that guides my cooking and my kitchen is this: Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. In cooking, as in life, even as we strive for flawlessness, most often what we achieve is good enough.”
― Megan Kimble, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food

“How Bad Are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything,”
― Megan Kimble, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food

“I do not believe that ‘employment outside the house’ is as valuable or important or satisfying as employment at home, for either men or women,” wrote Wendell Berry in his famous 1987 essay “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer.”
― Megan Kimble, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food