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.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

The real food is not being advertised.