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

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

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

Let things taste the way they are.

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.

Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.