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.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.