One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

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.

And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

Your love brought me closer to God.

Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

Any surplus is immoral.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.