Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

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.

The only thing that I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

We slid along water reds and greens, the changing lights captured in the canvas of wet tar.

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.