Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

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

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others