“-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
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Two of the most nutritious plants in the world —lamb’s quarters and purslane—are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Boiled food is life,’ Levi-Strauss writes, ‘roast food death.’ He reports finding countless examples in the world’s folklore of ‘cauldrons of immortality,’… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this… — 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
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Handling these plants and animals, taking back the production and the preparation of even just some part of our food, has the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It may be that a taste for Bittor’s cooking, for his obsessive, slightly mad investigation into the nature of wood and fire… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less 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
