The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

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

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

Do all your eating at a table.