To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Pepper Dennis. Not only do they have a great voice as they have proven on 'Pepper Dennis,' but they're very versatile writers who are valuable for the studio in having them support other shows.

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

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.