Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“-perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love? — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food choices are something fundamental you can control about yourself: what you take into your body. When so many other things are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The fact that the nutritional quality of a given food (and of that food's food) can vary not just in degree but… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“[I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Umami…is the quasi-secret heart and soul of almost every braise, stew, and soup.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. — 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
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