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

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

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.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

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

We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.