Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

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.

What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

A million years went by quick.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

The way to the stars is open.