Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

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.)