I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

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.

Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing.

Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.