High-quality food is better for your health.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

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.