We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.