The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.