Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

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.

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

I think Michigan and the people of Michigan know - really, they know that I'm going to protect them. They're great people.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.