Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

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.