At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.