Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

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

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