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

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

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

How we eat can change the world