Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.