I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.

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.

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.