Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.

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

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

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.