Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.

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

Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

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.

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