Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.

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.

I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.”“Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be!

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt...acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.