Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

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 was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

If it's on Facebook, it all looks the same.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

I'm blessed, because of my faith, that I don't have to worry about the future because I know who holds my future.