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.
Eating is an environmental act.
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
Good food should be a right not a privilege.
Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.