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.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

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

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

The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people who take care of the land. And so, if 20% of the population is in school, and they are asked to buy this food from farms. I mean at the real cost without a middleman, it could be amazing. It could change farming overnight.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

Let things taste of what they are.