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

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.

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

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

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.

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