The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.

Let things taste of what they are.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

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

Good food should be a right not a privilege.