The only thing I’ve truly enjoyed that has anything to do with molecular gastronomy is Richard Blais. A truly humble and yet spectacularly brilliant chef who won Top Chef All-Stars, and the ironic part? Never tasted a single thing he’s ever made.

What’s that say?

With people like Mark Winne, we’re all winning.

Information is the key to unlock the polarizing deadlock paralyzing democracy.

Wow - did I write that? This article has done wonders for my intellect already.

You want to do something dramatic for your life and your environment? Join a CSA. A few months’ into it and you’ll think of food, and your relationship with it, in an indescribably different way.

I’m in SF now, where there’s a CSA without that pesky, expensive up-front share hardship. For $33 a week, I get a box full of the most amazing puzzles.

Now, instead of shopping for what I want, I have to figure out what to do with what I get. It’s a mind-blowing experience, in the best way possible.

Not feeling you regarding the insulated baking sheets. The day I bought those was the first day of no more burnt cookies. I guess if you have a parchment paper budget, which I don’t, and a big kitchen in which to store it, also - no, then regular aluminum pans are okay.

Oh I have my boxing gloves on now, ready to back you up, excited to be on your side, and happy to have people like you to follow down the path.

That’s how change is made: one person who won’t back down, inspiring a few others who, in turn, inspire more and more.

There are more “mostly” vegans around than most people notice. You find them at Thanksgiving, like I did, politely turning down the turkey and not making a big deal about it.

There are a lot of us with this same story, although you have told it in such a way that I want to hug myself and thank myself for not only surviving, but being honest, taking thousands of tiny steps to get to where I am, and grateful to be alive.

The one action that changed everything for my family, out of the millions of little changes we’ve made, was joining a CSA. It’s like getting a puzzle on the doorstep every week and your job to figure out what those green, bulgy things are and how to make something out of them for dinner. Every night, we focused on the food in excruciating detail and everything changed. The world stopped interfering with dinner and our health and happiness improved.

Hard to believe, but nothing changes your lifestyle more than a weekly delivery of unfamiliar veggies.

Great information about the little ladies largely responsible for our food supply. The whole time I lived in Oregon, we were so transient that couldn’t have bees. Now that I’m in San Francisco, in an apartment, we’re putting one up on the roof. Never say never, right?

Share the bee “buzz.”

Someone with previous food issues could really take this to another level, but instead of worrying over how much more, and how weirder I eat, I’ll enjoy the idea of this book. We really don’t think about food, in a healthy, conscious way.

For me: 2 cups Kenyan coffee with 1/2 and 1/2, 2 home-made oatmeal pancakes, 1 plum. Next round: zucchini bread with peanut butter and an apple, and a home-made chocolate cupcake. Later it was: stove-popped popcorn, green beans and tomatoes, 2 slices walnut bread with tillamook cheese. I snacked on the leftover pancake during the day but I don’t recall exactly when. Compared to the rest of you, I feel like a pig even though I weigh 103. Does it count that I ran 6 miles, walked 5 and did 1/2 hour of weights, too?

Shout-outs for welcoming Bill Marler and educating more people about real dangers in our world. You both are fighting good battles in your own way, and my family and friends and I support you even if we don’t comment and vocalize as much as we ought to.

If the electrical system goes down? Really? You’ll be cooking?

As far as limiting access to information, well, you sound positively Fahrenheit 451ish.

Everybody’s heard the parallel to music, but the film parallel - play filming - creates a clear pathway as to how, exactly, the eBook revolution will take place. So thanks.

It’s a treeless future, even in the kitchen. Whether we book-obsessed get on the path or not doesn’t matter. Ten years ago we couldn’t imagine life without newspapers, too, remember?

Now to google a good vegan cupcake recipe . . . oh wait, there’s one here on your site. The future ain’t so bad!

Thank you so much for publishing a good vegan cupcake recipe. When you do this, it has amazing ripple effects. One baker shares with a few, who see the vegan light and share, those people also share, and on and on until maybe even somebody who listens to country music will be drinking the vegan kool-aid, metaphorically.

Any article mentioning both saving money and New Seasons has my complete attention. When I lived in Portland, I had my $50 weeks and it was tough without a full pantry and other cheats. That’s why, although admirable, when Kulongowski goes on his week-long living-on-food-stamps publicity tours, I laugh. Clean out your pantry, don’t eat from any other source, and you’ll earn my respect.

Thank you for injecting chickens and other realities (“three digits and you’re done” is genius) into the discussion. You are effecting the real change many of us want to see in the world, chicken by chicken, click by three digit click.

I loved this article so much that I posted it everywhere AND I’m on overstock.com already looking for good buys on . . . guess what?

We are a spoiled, spoiled society!