The banquet is in the first bite.

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.

It is very easy to know someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget them.

Rage and hurt coalesce into a stone in my chest and as I take another gulp of my father's prized whiskey, I hear myself say, "Tell me about your plan.

Snow is snow.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

Sometimes I get really lonely. Especially when I'm throwing a Frisbee.