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I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.

To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.

You've got to be in your kitchens, or it all falls apart.

I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

It's nice when there's stuff in the middle of the table. That's when the best conversations start to happen.