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When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?

— Jose Andres

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

— Joel Salatin

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

— Kenzo Tange

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

— Tadao Ando

Food is the new health care.

— Jason Calacanis

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.

— Cat Cora

Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

— Atul Gawande

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

— Bobby Flay

✗Opposing Perspectives

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

— Jack Welch