At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire.

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

Life is what's going on while your making other plans.

Any manager will tell you that they would rather win one and lose two than to draw three, because you get more points

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

I never assign blame in a crisis. There is no benefit to doing so.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.