The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Clean plates don't lie.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

Dear Lord, " she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen.

Don't make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.