What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

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

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.