We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow… — 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
