The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.