I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

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.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard.

sometimes bravery lies in stepping down from the last step for the better result of mankind and that's where life differentiate between best and the great ones.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.