I showed this book to a number of fruit and vegetable sellers in our region. Many of them are now once again selling old vegetable varieties and wild salad greens. So, for me, respect means knowing and understanding what nature has to offer in each season and how to prepare those foods. Anyone who orders a salad in our restaurant not only gets a dish rich in vitamins, but also a little bit of the natural history of our land. Food products are not consumer goods; they are the most intimate thing that we consume as human beings, because we ingest them via our mouths. We should all be aware of that.