Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.