To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes - against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a great, undifferentiated lawn across the globe.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

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.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.