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

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

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

Let things taste the way they are.

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 still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.

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