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

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.

I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.

Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.