The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.

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.

Small Actions Often Lead To Big Results

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

When we tell people that God will do this and that without teaching people how to do their best, we are doing a disservice to them.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.