Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
Everything that lives, it seems, must play host to the germ of its own dissolution.
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 lo...
I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that...
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
So perhaps spiritual experience is simply what happens in the space that opens up in the mind when all mean egotism vanishes. Wonders (and terrors) we’re ordinarily defended against flow into our awar...
Our brains are prediction machines optimized by experience,
In ancient Greece, the word for cook, butcher, and priest was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with magic.
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car yo...
[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.
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
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...
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...
Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination.
Maybe the problem with the box is that it is singular.
I realized that the answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated question of what we should eat wasn't so complicated after all, and in fact could be boiled down to just seven words: Eat food. Not...
Huston Smith, the scholar of religion, once described a spiritually realized being as simply a person with an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.
As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor