"Of course it’s also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with th…"

"Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want …"

"The industrial animal factory offers a nightmarish glimpse of what capitalism is capable of in the absence of any mor…"

"It's [a kitchen/dining table] where we teach our children the manners they need to get along in society. We teach the…"

"We forget how much time it can take simply to avoid cooking: all that time spent driving to restaurants or waiting fo…"

"…the microwave is an individualistic serial machine – it can only do one at a time so if you've got four people eatin…"

"Home cooking is good for you, and I eat out less. But that's the least of it. What has surprised me is how stimulatin…"

"Evolution doesn’t depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process."

"Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or…"

"These are stories, then, about Man and Nature. We’ve been telling ourselves such stories forever, as a way of making …"