I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.