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.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Stop eating before you're full.

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.