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Top 50 Bee Wilson Quotes (2025 Update)

Bee Wilson Quote: “The term curfew now means a time by which someone – usually a teenager – has to get home. The original curfew was a kitchen object: a large metal cover placed over the embers at night to contain the fire while people slept.”

1. “The term curfew now means a time by which someone – usually a teenager – has to get home. The original curfew was a kitchen object: a large metal cover placed over the embers at night to contain the fire while people slept.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The fact that the juice does not pucker my mouth with bitterness is thanks to a female inventor, Linda C. Brewster, who in the 1970s was granted four patents for “debittering” orange juice by reducing the presence of acrid limonin.”

2. “The fact that the juice does not pucker my mouth with bitterness is thanks to a female inventor, Linda C. Brewster, who in the 1970s was granted four patents for “debittering” orange juice by reducing the presence of acrid limonin.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Every new technology represents a trade-off: something is gained, but something is also lost.”

3. “Every new technology represents a trade-off: something is gained, but something is also lost.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Christine Frederick’s rational kitchen had been driven by efficiency: the fewest steps, the fewest utensils. The new ideal kitchens were far more opulent. These were dollhouses for grown women, packed with the maximum number of trinkets. The aim was not to save labor but to make the laborers forget they were working.”

4. “Christine Frederick’s rational kitchen had been driven by efficiency: the fewest steps, the fewest utensils. The new ideal kitchens were far more opulent. These were dollhouses for grown women, packed with the maximum number of trinkets. The aim was not to save labor but to make the laborers forget they were working.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “When eating becomes a matter of life or death, and each new bite is a celebration, you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.”

5. “When eating becomes a matter of life or death, and each new bite is a celebration, you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “But something important about eating is lost when meals are never – or almost never – timed to be taken together. There’s an old word, ‘commensality’, which literally means eating at the same table. The food anthropologist Claude Fischler has written that commensality is what provides the fundamental human ‘script’ of eating in every society. It was how basic bonds of kinship were forged.”

6. “But something important about eating is lost when meals are never – or almost never – timed to be taken together. There’s an old word, ‘commensality’, which literally means eating at the same table. The food anthropologist Claude Fischler has written that commensality is what provides the fundamental human ‘script’ of eating in every society. It was how basic bonds of kinship were forged.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Kitchen technology is not just about how well something works on its own terms – whether it produces the most delicious food – but about all the things that surround it: kitchen design; our attitude to danger and risk; pollution; the lives of women and servants; how we feel about red meat, indeed about meat in general; social and family structures; the state of metallurgy.”

7. “Kitchen technology is not just about how well something works on its own terms – whether it produces the most delicious food – but about all the things that surround it: kitchen design; our attitude to danger and risk; pollution; the lives of women and servants; how we feel about red meat, indeed about meat in general; social and family structures; the state of metallurgy.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Most of our problems with eating come down to the fact that we have not yet adapted to the new realities of plenty, either biologically or psychologically.”

8. “Most of our problems with eating come down to the fact that we have not yet adapted to the new realities of plenty, either biologically or psychologically.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.”

9. “The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “We are the first generation to be hunted by what we eat. Since the birth of farming ten thousand years ago, most humans haven’t been hunters, but never before have we been so insistently pursued by our own food supply. The calories hunt them down even when we are not looking for them.”

10. “We are the first generation to be hunted by what we eat. Since the birth of farming ten thousand years ago, most humans haven’t been hunters, but never before have we been so insistently pursued by our own food supply. The calories hunt them down even when we are not looking for them.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Eating well is a skill. We learn it. Or not. It’s something we can work on at any age. Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.”

11. “Eating well is a skill. We learn it. Or not. It’s something we can work on at any age. Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “No home-cooked food, no matter how delicious, can match the power of bringing people together in misty-eyed recollection of industrially produced food.”

12. “No home-cooked food, no matter how delicious, can match the power of bringing people together in misty-eyed recollection of industrially produced food.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” This is certainly true in the kitchen. Tools are not neutral objects. They change with changing social context. A mortar and pestle was a different thing for the Roman slave forced to pound up highly amalgamated mixtures for hours on end for his master’s enjoyment than it is for me: a pleasing object with which I make pesto for fun, on a whim.”

13. “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” This is certainly true in the kitchen. Tools are not neutral objects. They change with changing social context. A mortar and pestle was a different thing for the Roman slave forced to pound up highly amalgamated mixtures for hours on end for his master’s enjoyment than it is for me: a pleasing object with which I make pesto for fun, on a whim.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “No one is doomed by genes to eat badly. Pickiness is governed more by environment than biology.”

14. “No one is doomed by genes to eat badly. Pickiness is governed more by environment than biology.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “When we say we lack time to cook – or even time to eat – we are not making a simple statement of fact. We are talking about cultural values and the way that our society dictates that our days should be carved up.”

15. “When we say we lack time to cook – or even time to eat – we are not making a simple statement of fact. We are talking about cultural values and the way that our society dictates that our days should be carved up.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “When we lament the decline of time spent on cooking, we need to be clear what it is that we are lamenting. Many of the female cooks who devoted so many hours to preparing food in the past did so because they did not think their own time was worth much.”

16. “When we lament the decline of time spent on cooking, we need to be clear what it is that we are lamenting. Many of the female cooks who devoted so many hours to preparing food in the past did so because they did not think their own time was worth much.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Kitchens are places of violence.”

17. “Kitchens are places of violence.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “For thousands of years, servants and slaves – or in lesser households, wives and daughters – were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.”

18. “For thousands of years, servants and slaves – or in lesser households, wives and daughters – were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.”

19. “This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Our kitchens are filled with ghosts. You may not see them, but you could not cook as you do without their ingenuity: the potters who first enabled us to boil and stew; the knife forgers; the resourceful engineers who designed the first refrigerators; the pioneers of gas and electric ovens; the scale makers; the inventors of eggbeaters and peelers.”

20. “Our kitchens are filled with ghosts. You may not see them, but you could not cook as you do without their ingenuity: the potters who first enabled us to boil and stew; the knife forgers; the resourceful engineers who designed the first refrigerators; the pioneers of gas and electric ovens; the scale makers; the inventors of eggbeaters and peelers.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “As things stand, our culture is far too critical of the individuals who eat junk foods and not critical enough about the corporations that profit from selling them. We spend a lot of time discussing unhealthy foods in terms of individual guilt and willpower and not enough looking at the morality of big food companies that have targeted some of the poorest consumers in the world with products that will make them sick, or the governments that allowed them to do so.”

21. “As things stand, our culture is far too critical of the individuals who eat junk foods and not critical enough about the corporations that profit from selling them. We spend a lot of time discussing unhealthy foods in terms of individual guilt and willpower and not enough looking at the morality of big food companies that have targeted some of the poorest consumers in the world with products that will make them sick, or the governments that allowed them to do so.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself.”

22. “Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Japan has somehow managed to achieve the ideal attitude to eating: an obsession with culinary pleasure that is actually conductive to health.”

23. “Japan has somehow managed to achieve the ideal attitude to eating: an obsession with culinary pleasure that is actually conductive to health.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The existence of birthday cake ice cream suggests that we can no longer distinguish celebration foods from everyday ones. We are also not too sure whether we are children or adults.”

24. “The existence of birthday cake ice cream suggests that we can no longer distinguish celebration foods from everyday ones. We are also not too sure whether we are children or adults.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The true value of food goes beyond price, and once we collectively start to realize this once again, the challenge will be for policy makers to build food environments that encourage people to make better food choices rather than berating them for making bad ones.”

25. “The true value of food goes beyond price, and once we collectively start to realize this once again, the challenge will be for policy makers to build food environments that encourage people to make better food choices rather than berating them for making bad ones.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The subtext of all table manners is the fear that the man next to you may pull his knife on you.”

26. “The subtext of all table manners is the fear that the man next to you may pull his knife on you.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The gap in quality between the diet of the poorest and that of the richest is wide and widening. The poorest families in America may not look hungry in the way that Victorian orphans looked hungry, but they eat fewer dark green vegetables, fewer whole grains, and fewer nuts.”

27. “The gap in quality between the diet of the poorest and that of the richest is wide and widening. The poorest families in America may not look hungry in the way that Victorian orphans looked hungry, but they eat fewer dark green vegetables, fewer whole grains, and fewer nuts.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The answer to how to engage with obesity, Cahnman said, was ‘an agreement of mutual respect for the common humanity of each and every one of us’. Weight stigma, he pointed out, cannot be removed except by treating individuals with obesity as normal human beings – as intelligent and capable as anyone else – and removing any sense of moral shame about their condition.”

28. “The answer to how to engage with obesity, Cahnman said, was ‘an agreement of mutual respect for the common humanity of each and every one of us’. Weight stigma, he pointed out, cannot be removed except by treating individuals with obesity as normal human beings – as intelligent and capable as anyone else – and removing any sense of moral shame about their condition.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Siblings have always marked out territory through food.”

29. “Siblings have always marked out territory through food.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Many of us cling to particular vessels, fetishizing over this mug or that plate.”

30. “Many of us cling to particular vessels, fetishizing over this mug or that plate.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “It was little trouble to boil up mutton and water and mash in some leeks, garlic, and green herbs, then leave it to bubble away in its own good time. The elementary pattern these Mesopotamian recipes took was: prepare water, add fat and salt to taste; add meat, leeks, and garlic; cook in the pot; maybe add fresh coriander or mint; and serve.”

31. “It was little trouble to boil up mutton and water and mash in some leeks, garlic, and green herbs, then leave it to bubble away in its own good time. The elementary pattern these Mesopotamian recipes took was: prepare water, add fat and salt to taste; add meat, leeks, and garlic; cook in the pot; maybe add fresh coriander or mint; and serve.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “How were they to square the tremendous wealth they accrued with their image of themselves as frugal and virtuous? Easy: just argue that commerce was itself virtuous. To be rich in corrupt old Europe must be a sign of droneishness; but to be rich in fresh young American was the fruit of hard work. The beehive provided Americans with the ideal image for their religion of work.”

32. “How were they to square the tremendous wealth they accrued with their image of themselves as frugal and virtuous? Easy: just argue that commerce was itself virtuous. To be rich in corrupt old Europe must be a sign of droneishness; but to be rich in fresh young American was the fruit of hard work. The beehive provided Americans with the ideal image for their religion of work.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “We speak of having better food choices, but for the most part, we eat the foods that food companies want to sell us.”

33. “We speak of having better food choices, but for the most part, we eat the foods that food companies want to sell us.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Hunger is always a kind of emptiness – an absence of nourishment – but what it will take to replenish it is far from obvious.”

34. “Hunger is always a kind of emptiness – an absence of nourishment – but what it will take to replenish it is far from obvious.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The danger of growing up surrounded by these endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them, but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.”

35. “The danger of growing up surrounded by these endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them, but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “There’s a joke about a man who tested his blade using his tongue: sharp blades taste like metal; really sharp blades taste like blood.”

36. “There’s a joke about a man who tested his blade using his tongue: sharp blades taste like metal; really sharp blades taste like blood.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “A few decades from now, the current laissez-faire attitudes to sugar – now present in 80 per cent of supermarket foods – may seems as reckless and strange as permitting cars without seatbelts or smoking on aeroplanes.”

37. “A few decades from now, the current laissez-faire attitudes to sugar – now present in 80 per cent of supermarket foods – may seems as reckless and strange as permitting cars without seatbelts or smoking on aeroplanes.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The power siblings have over our eating habits is no small thing. yet we hardly ever talk about these familial influences.”

38. “The power siblings have over our eating habits is no small thing. yet we hardly ever talk about these familial influences.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Why is a bowl of frosted cereal loops with added rainbow marshmallows allowed to count as ‘breakfast’ and not ‘sweets’?”

39. “Why is a bowl of frosted cereal loops with added rainbow marshmallows allowed to count as ‘breakfast’ and not ‘sweets’?”

Bee Wilson Quote: “But in most places, the new global diet has involved a narrowing down of what people eat. Our world contains around seven thousand edible crops, yet 95 per cent of what we eat comes from just thirty of those crops. As omnivores, humans are designed to eat a varied diet, so there’s something strange and wrong when, as a species, we become so limited in our choice of foods.”

40. “But in most places, the new global diet has involved a narrowing down of what people eat. Our world contains around seven thousand edible crops, yet 95 per cent of what we eat comes from just thirty of those crops. As omnivores, humans are designed to eat a varied diet, so there’s something strange and wrong when, as a species, we become so limited in our choice of foods.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The art of feeding, it turns out, is not about pushing ‘one more bite’ into someone’s mouth, however healthy the food. Nor is it about authoritarian demands to abstain from all treats. It is about creating a mealtime environment where those eating are free to develop their own tastes, because all the choices on the table are real, whole food.”

41. “The art of feeding, it turns out, is not about pushing ‘one more bite’ into someone’s mouth, however healthy the food. Nor is it about authoritarian demands to abstain from all treats. It is about creating a mealtime environment where those eating are free to develop their own tastes, because all the choices on the table are real, whole food.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Our olfactory bulbs have gathered endless sense patterns of foods high in sugar, fat and salt. These flavour memories have become part of the fabric of our sense of self and are not easily discarded, because the system, as we have seen, is designed ‘not to forget’.”

42. “Our olfactory bulbs have gathered endless sense patterns of foods high in sugar, fat and salt. These flavour memories have become part of the fabric of our sense of self and are not easily discarded, because the system, as we have seen, is designed ‘not to forget’.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “If we consistently eat less sugar, it actually changes our sense of sweetness.”

43. “If we consistently eat less sugar, it actually changes our sense of sweetness.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The rise of vast portions – particularly in fast-food restaurants – means that if we eat only the calories we need, we should often stop at half of something; or even a quarter. And no one – child or adult – seems to like the feeling of the glass- – or plate – half empty.”

44. “The rise of vast portions – particularly in fast-food restaurants – means that if we eat only the calories we need, we should often stop at half of something; or even a quarter. And no one – child or adult – seems to like the feeling of the glass- – or plate – half empty.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “Love and travel are both powerful spurs to change.”

45. “Love and travel are both powerful spurs to change.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.”

46. “It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “In the West the word “delicious” is likely to conjure up something laced with sugar, fat and salt, whereas in Japan it signifies a flavour found in mushrooms, grilled fish and light broths.”

47. “In the West the word “delicious” is likely to conjure up something laced with sugar, fat and salt, whereas in Japan it signifies a flavour found in mushrooms, grilled fish and light broths.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “The Japanese bento – pioneered using aluminium boxes in the early twentieth century – offers a structure ideally designed for eating a healthy lunch.”

48. “The Japanese bento – pioneered using aluminium boxes in the early twentieth century – offers a structure ideally designed for eating a healthy lunch.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “No one is too busy to cook.”

49. “No one is too busy to cook.”

Bee Wilson Quote: “It is not about learning to like this or that vegetable; but developing an overall attitude to eating that is more open to variety and less governed by the simple sugar-salt-fat palate of junk food.”

50. “It is not about learning to like this or that vegetable; but developing an overall attitude to eating that is more open to variety and less governed by the simple sugar-salt-fat palate of junk food.”

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