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

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

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.