The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

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

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.

Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.

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

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