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

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

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

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.