There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.

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

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.