Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.