There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.