“A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast,...” — Alice Waters Quote

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.