I've been amazed to learn all of the links between microbial health and our general health. This all started by trying to understand fermentation. The fermentation outside your body, and its relation to the fermentation inside your body. The key to health is fermentation, it turns out.
There is a deliberate effort to undermine food culture to sell us processed food. The family meal is a challenge if you're General Mills or Kellogg or one of these companies, or McDonald's, because the family meal is usually one thing shared.
Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.
In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I promise.
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We're constantly reading about scientific studies that support old wives' tales.
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon.
Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.
The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.
Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot.
We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.
I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.
Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.
