Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

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.

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

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.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

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