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

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

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

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.

Let things taste of what they are.