Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.