Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

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

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.