Occupation: Author Birth: February 6, 1955
People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet..
Stop eating before you're full..
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants..
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….
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion..
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation..
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being..
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….
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….
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap..
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..
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.….
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food..
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people ….
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..