“there are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I like the taste of grass-fed meat. It is chewier, I'll own that... The Argentines make excellent beef that's grass-fed. They've learned… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To eat well, you either have to invest money or time. If you can put in some time, the raw ingredients are… — 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
“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
“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
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
While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is a deliberate effort to undermine food culture to sell us processed food. The family meal is a challenge if you're… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,… — 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
“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
“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
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 more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Cream—the richest, sweetest part of milk—is of course our first flavor, the taste, in a spoon, of life’s first freshness and innocence,… — 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
“We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the “French paradox,” for how could a people who eat such… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm very picky about the meat I eat. I eat grass-fed beef, which is now becoming more common. Yes, it's still more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — 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
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
One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Animals raised on corn produce fattier meat, but it's not just that it's fattier, it's the kinds of fats. Corn-fed beef produces… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don’t set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. (That… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's… — 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
