Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.

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.

She's my daughter. She's my sister.

We both have no home to go back to... so we can go anywhere at all.

To find prosperity in life, help others to prosper.

The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.

-Who knows about this? -Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.