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

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

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

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.