I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.

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

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be buying real food and not processed food, so that means the farmers will capture more of your food dollar.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.