When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

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

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

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

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

Let things taste the way they are.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.