"How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden." — Michael Pollan

I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

It's not that hard to eat well if you're willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness into it and, yes, a little bit more money.