You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

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.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.

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.