It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don't do well on raw food: they can't maintain their body weight, and half of the women on a raw-food regimen stop menstruating. Devotees of raw food rely heavily on juicers and blenders, because otherwise they would have to spend as much time chewing as the chimps do. It is difficult, if not impossible, to extract sufficient energy from unprocessed plant matter to power a body with such a big, hungry brain.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.