The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.

Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.

Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

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

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.