What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

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.

we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome

I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I kiss people with my soul. I don't kiss them with my mouth.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

The happier time, the quicker it passes

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.