We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any one of TV shows takes twice as long to watch as that, which I think is very interesting because the main excuse people give for not cooking is they don't have time to cook, but somehow they're finding time to watch other people cook or eat on TV.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food is that the government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food, whether you mean organic or grass-fed or whatever.