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The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.