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

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.

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

You are what what you eat eats.

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.