Occupation: Chef Birth: April 28, 1944
How we eat can change the world.
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary..
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 ….
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..
Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the ….
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way..
To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing..
Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is com….
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..
People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep c….
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients..
Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans ar….
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture..
Eating is an environmental act..
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking..
It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients..
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture..
Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It'….
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for t….
Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook..