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

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

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

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.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

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.