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Dan Barber Biography

Dan Barber (born 1969) is a chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York. He is a 1992 graduate of Tufts University, where he received a B. A. in English, and a graduate of the French Culinary Institute. He is married to Aria Sloss, a short story writer, novelist and former food writer. He is the author of The Third Plate.

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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.

Cutting, Fish, Inspiration, Motivation, Ones, Overstate

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

Being The Best, Seeing, Tasting, Think, Thinking, Would Be

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

Doctor, Doctors, Environmentalist, Nutritionist

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.

Fifteen, Inspiration, Motivation, Pounds, Takes, Tuna

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.

Agriculture, Alternatives, Eat, Feeding, Needs, Toward

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.

Flavor, Generations, Marbling, Old, Technology

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

Fallen, Fallen World, Process, Sacrifice, World

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.

Agriculture, Food, Ingredients, Lost, Understanding, Web

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

Biographers, Eats, Food, History, Reading

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.

Food, Lesson, Lessons, Realization, Reduced, Support

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.

Ecological, Habitat, Lifetime, Looking, Looks, Thinking

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

Account, Bank, Soil, Vegetables, Withdrawal, Withdrawals

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.

Flavor, Rotation, Things, Three

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

Don, Feeding, Inspiration, Motivation, Said

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

Chefs, Ethics, Flavor, Good, Pursue, Thinking

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.

Cow, Cows, Grass, Perspective, Soil, Vegetables

At the end of the day, yes. It's all about the marbling and maybe a few other things along the way. But intramuscular fat, that's where you get a lot of flavor. Fat carries the flavor but in the last 50 years it's been bred out of pigs. When American chicken exploded in the 70's and became such a huge commodity, it took away pork sales. The pork industry suffered and had to change.

Carries, Chicken, Exploded, Pigs, The End Of The Day, Years

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.

Issues, Make, People, Personal, Political, Used

Clean plates don't lie.

Clean, Don'T Lie, Lie, Lying, Plates

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

Ecology, Flavor, Pursue