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.

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.

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

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

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