--- title: Dan Barber: Cook with the Whole Farm description: Our long-term health—and that of the land—requires a cuisine that transforms agriculture canonical: https://time.com/23072/dan-barber-cook-with-the-whole-farm/ author: Dan Barber article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-13T10:59:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:53:50.740Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Dan Barber: Cook with the Whole Farm og:description: Our long-term health—and that of the land—requires a cuisine that transforms agriculture og:url: https://time.com/23072/dan-barber-cook-with-the-whole-farm/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte196e60a0cf7c07f/69868549810bbb9897c90762/140324077010.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1334 og:image:height: 750 og:image:alt: Health food og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dan Barber: Cook with the Whole Farm twitter:description: Our long-term health—and that of the land—requires a cuisine that transforms agriculture twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte196e60a0cf7c07f/69868549810bbb9897c90762/140324077010.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cook with the Whole Farm > Sponsored content. 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Both models leave farmers overproducing soil-depleting crops like tomatoes and raising animals like lambs to sell mostly just the chops. Our tastes have to change. What we need is a new conception of food, a third plate–a different way of assembling a dish, writing a menu and sourcing ingredients. It combines tastes based not on convention but rather on the health of the environment that produces them. It encourages you to cook with the whole farm, recognizing that what we eat is part of an integrated system. It champions an entire class of crops (and cuts of meat) that have gone unrecognized or that by engaging modern plant breeders will require support in the future. It encourages the right kind of demand for what a farm can supply. And like all great cuisines, it forces us into a pattern of eating that adds rather than subtracts, replenishes rather than drains. _Barber is executive chef and co-owner of Blue Hill restaurants and author of_ The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/23072/dan-barber-cook-with-the-whole-farm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/23072/dan-barber-cook-with-the-whole-farm/"},"headline":"Cook with the Whole Farm","datePublished":"2014-03-13T10:59:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:53:50.740Z","description":"Our long-term health—and that of the land—requires a cuisine that transforms agriculture","url":"https://time.com/23072/dan-barber-cook-with-the-whole-farm/","keywords":["Food","farm"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte196e60a0cf7c07f/69868549810bbb9897c90762/140324077010.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Barber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-barber/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte196e60a0cf7c07f/69868549810bbb9897c90762/140324077010.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Health food","caption":"Health food","creditText":"Grant Cornett for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/23072/dan-barber-cook-with-the-whole-farm/","name":"Cook with the Whole Farm"}}]}] ```