Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Do all your eating at a table.

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.