In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.