Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

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.

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

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

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