Chefs Collaborative
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Quotes
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“We’ve come from the lunatic fringe to trendy. Because I am, you know -- I’m trendy now!” — Past Chefs Collaborative overseer Jesse Ziff Cool (who renamed herself after an Allman Brothers song), in the Chefs Collaborative newsletter
“What becomes dangerous is when chefs think they know better than the public, when they forget that they are in the business of serving people food. We went through that in the ‘80s. I’m holding my breath because I believe they are going to make the same mistake again.” — New York Times restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton
“I am horrified that anyone eats conventional food.” — Chefs Collaborative co-founder and organic food pusher Nora Pouillon, wishing a world of overpriced organics on her fellow man (Natural Health, March 2001)
“‘The Green Revolution’ was a dismal failure. We don’t need it now, we didn’t need it then.” — Former Chefs Collaborative chairman and New York celebrity chef Peter Hoffman, dissing the Nobel prize winning scientific movement that improved conventional agriculture and saved millions of lives worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s (press conference, June 2000)
“[I]f you are sitting in a restaurant in Minneapolis in January, you shouldn’t be eating fresh red snapper and just-picked raspberries.” — Chefs Collaborative vice president Stan Frankenthaler, telling readers of Natural Health magazine that they should ignore the United States’ “very efficient food distribution network” and make only the politically correct “seasonal” food choices (March 2001)
“We want food that is ripe, perfect, out of season? And cheap? We ask too much. I buy organic.” — Alberta (Canada) Chefs Collaborative regional chairman Tim Wood, in The Calgary Herald
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