All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can.

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

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

Stop eating before you're full.

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.