I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.

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

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.

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