Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

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.

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question...

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.