The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

I prefer to remain anomalous.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.