This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

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

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.