In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

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

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

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.

The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.