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.

People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.

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

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

In terms of kids not liking the food, I am shocked. I know that it's not true. I know that when kids are not educated about healthy food, they have a resistance to it. The resistance comes, again, from the fast-food culture.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

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