[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.
Our brains developed under the pressure of natural selection to make us good foragers, which is how humans have spent 99 percent of their time on Earth. The presence of flowers, as even I understood a...
Our brains are prediction machines optimized by experience,
Everything that lives, it seems, must play host to the germ of its own dissolution.
As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor
AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT MAKE HEALTH CLAIMS.
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...
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and so...
Ordained Zen monk,
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to...
Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
In ancient Greece, the word for cook, butcher, and priest was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with magic.
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
Numinous