If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government.