A Taste of Generation Yum Quotes

“In terms of wasted water, throwing out half a hamburger is equivalent to taking over an hour shower, according to the Water Footprint Network.”
― Eve Turow, A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food

“I have friends who won’t eat anything with a head because it reminds them that their dinner was once alive.”
― Eve Turow, A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food

“The average age of the American farmer is nearly 60.”
― Eve Turow, A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food

“Foodism has taken on the sociological characteristics of what used to be known… as culture. It is costly. It requires knowledge and connoisseurship…. It is a badge of membership in the higher classes…. It is a vehicle of status aspiration and competition, an ever-present occasion for snobbery, one-upmanship and social aggression. (My farmers’ market has bigger, better, fresher tomatoes than yours.) Nobody cares if you know about Mozart or Leonardo anymore, but you had better be able to discuss the difference between ganache and couverture.”
― Eve Turow, A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food

“Participating in foodie culture not only is a tremendous privilege, reliant on the possession of adequate economic and cultural capital, but also represents a kind of cultural hegemony,”
― Eve Turow, A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food

“I took his eating habits and gourmet knowledge as signifiers for other cultural and economic characteristics.”
― Eve Turow, A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food

“I learned that my generation spends 14 times more money on food than an average middle class family, and that 87 percent of us will splurge on a meal even when money is tight.”
― Eve Turow, A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food