In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

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

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.