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.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

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.

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

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.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.