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

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.

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

Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

Let things taste of what they are.