I Am Happiest When I

If You Go To Italy And You Drive From The Airport To The Town, There Isn't 30 Square Feet That Isn't Planted By Someone. Even Next To The Train Tracks, They See The Joy Of The Interaction With The Planet As Integral To The Experience. The Idea That You Can Get Free Arugula Just By Planting Seeds... Because It Will Regrow Itself The Next Year. We've Come A Long Way From Foraging To Now Planting. The Next Step Of That Will Be Continuing That Expansion Of Planting And Really Owning The Crops.

We Would Load Up The Yellow Cutlass Supreme Station Wagon And Pick Blackberries During Blackberry Season Or Spring Onions During Spring Onion Season. For Us, Food Was Part Of The Fabric Of Our Day.

Look At Cookbooks With Your Kids And Ask Them What Sounds Good.

Food, Like Most Things, Is Best When Left To Its Own Simple Beauty.

My Kids And I Make Pasta Three Days A Week Now. It's Not Even So Much About The Eating Of It; They Just Like The Process. Benno Is The Stuffer, And Leo Is The Catcher. They've Got Their Jobs Down.