How we eat can change the world

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.

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

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.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.

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