#vegetable

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#beginning #garden #grows #in the beginning #little

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#around #been #diesel #engine #fact

Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#allow #country #day #eat #enough

American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#calories #corn #farmers #fats #fresh

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. ↗

— Robert Blair

#decay #makes #maturity #passed #point

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#comfort food #cook #creativity #fish #food

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#covered #cut #everything #flower #garden

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#grow #i #just #name #planted

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#daughter #enjoy #fresh #going #husband

I always take working out seriously, but before a shoot I do extra sit ups and squats. I also eat more vegetables and drink a ton of water, because it really helps my skin glow. ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#always #because #before #drink #eat