Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be… — 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
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — 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 people who… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
