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….

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive..

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education..

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

How we eat can change the world.

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans ar….

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way..

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..

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing..

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment..

Eating is an environmental act..

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 ….

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients..

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden..

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….

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way..

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 ….

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….

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..

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