I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

How we eat can change the world

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.