People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Four of the top ten causes of death today are chronic diseases with well-established links to diet: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats;… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“ You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The fast-food hamburger has been brilliantly engineered to offer a succulent and tasty first bite, a bite that in fact would be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Yet as a general rule it's a whole lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So what exactly would an ecological detective set loose in an American supermarket discover, were he to trace the items in his… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Use the apple test "If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to eat well if you're willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness… — 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
