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.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

You are what what you eat eats.

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.

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

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.