Let things taste the way they are.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

How we eat can change the world

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

The light extinguishes all the flaming arrows of darkness.

Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.

I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after finding a diamond.

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.