Shake the hand that feeds you.

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

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