Sam Kass Professions : Executive Born : 1980 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Sam Kass It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time. Sam Kass issues opportunity people The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems. Sam Kass cooking creative thinking The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this. Sam Kass differences opportunity mean I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement. Sam Kass microsoft apples improvement In the United States we throw away around 40 % of what we produce ; and globally, 28 % of the land under cultivation grows food that ends up in landfills, not only are you wasting all of the energy and water -- and the emissions from nitrous oxide from fertilizers -- you then just dump that into a landfill, which produces methane in amounts that is just staggering. Sam Kass top-news The general public, when they hear greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, their eyes glaze over, it feels so big and detached from their lives. They're very disempowered to do something about it. And I think it's been a big barrier to more aggressive action. But food is one of those ways to tell this story in a way people can really relate to -- and, ultimately, in a way people can incorporate, and become an actor in the solution over time. Sam Kass top-news Top secret, i love this family and believe in everything the president and first lady are doing and this has been the greatest job of my life and I assume will be the greatest job of my life. Sam Kass lifestyle Similar Authors Bing Gordon executive Brian Krzanich executive Brenda Barnes executive Brad Katsuyama executive Ashish Chauhan executive Aubrey McClendon executive All Authors
