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.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Let things taste of what they are.

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

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.

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.

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