They’re growing kale in abandoned lots, feeding hungry schoolkids, looking out for our laborers, and teaching us why cooking matters. In short, they’re changing our food world for the better. We toast them all.
Interviewing New York City’s mayor is like interviewing a living, very verbal encyclopedia. Facts, figures, and statistics roll off his tongue easily and accurately, backed up by research from the Department of Health as well as the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. The successful (three-term), energetic, thoughtful, progressive leader is 100 percent devoted to improving the lives of his constituency. His initiatives in healthy living are already legendary — the ban on smoking in public places and restaurants, the establishment of salad bars and healthier menus in school cafeterias, the elimination of trans fats from prepared foods in restaurants, and now the limited size of calorie-packed sodas and juices. He cares, and his city is all the better for it.
— Martha Stewart
