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.

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.

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

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

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.