Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“EAT MORE LIKE THE FRENCH. OR THE ITALIANS. OR THE JAPANESE. OR THE INDIANS. OR THE GREEKS.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United States (about as much as automobiles do).… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is not strongly identified with reforming the industrial food system. The Clintons were involved with Walmart and Tyson in Arkansas.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating in our time has gotten complicated — needlessly so, in my opinion. I will get to the “needlessly” part in a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
