Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

Nature abhors a garden.

Stop eating before you're full.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.

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.