If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

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.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard

My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

All action is vicarious faith.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.

When life gets you down, just remember these three words of wisdom. "Bonk!", "Zap!", and "Yowsers!"

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.