Occupation: Author Birth: February 6, 1955
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of wha….
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than….
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose cor….
Better to pay the grocer than the doctor..
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure..
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting..
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world..
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't..
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too..
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap..
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants..
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion..
One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to c….
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being..
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people ….
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..
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who gro….
One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently.….
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….
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food..
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation..