Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

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

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.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

You lose a couple of pounds and get a guy good and drunk, you could have a hell of a good time even if you are not smart.

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

Can't wait to start camp on Monday. Feeling really hungry this year. Watch out world.