"From a philosophical stance - what's interesting about the idea of the celebrity chef [is that] to a great degree it speaks to our tendency as human beings to place things into hierarchies and order them in certain ways." [20:00]

--Robert Valgenti, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the College Colloquium at Lebanon Valley College on Taste Matters

"I worked in the magazine industry at a time when so many big publications were folding. Clearly people were buying things that were being written about in the magazines, but the magazines themselves weren't seeing enough ad revenue to be kept up. I thought why not break down that publisher/editor wall and just sell the things we were writing about and write about the things we really believe in." --Erica Cerulo of Of a Kind on After the Jump"

The future of arts management is about taking the internet and leveraging it to disrupt the systems that have been in place forever and giving artists the opportunity to market and produce their work without having to go through this gallery system that is very closed and insular." --Claire Mazur of Of a Kind on After the Jump

"One thing that really defines species is their food sources and one thing that really defines human evolution was reducing the amount of time dedicated to foraging and actually eating. . .humans have always been trying to economize on the time and energy we spend on getting food cause it frees up for all the other stuff we do and creating culture and I don't know that we should really chastise people for continuing that."

"Right now the American food supply contains about half the fruit and vegetables it would take for Americans to meet the recommended daily allowances, we clearly haven't made a priority in terms of our agriculture to foster a healthy diet . . I'm into the idea that we should subsidize demand because it creates a more sustainable long term fix."

--Tracie McMillan on Let's Eat In