The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

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.

We're a couple of travelers!" I called up to her. "I'm Briony, and this is Ella!""Grammy said I ought not to talk to strangers!" she called back."We're not strangers!" Ella shouted. "We're with the u

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.