The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.

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