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

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.

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

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.