[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

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

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.