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

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices 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.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

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

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also have less toxic residue. Science is still catching up with this. J. Agric. Food. Chem. Vol. 51, no. 5, 2003.