Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.