This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

How we eat can change the world

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

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

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

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.