French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

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.

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

I would rather he had given me one more division

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Filming a drama is something which you can't tear yourself away.

Id like to live in the Greek islands

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

I care for my dogs as if my life depended on them. And oftentimes it does.