I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food choices are something fundamental you can control about yourself: what you take into your body. When so many other things are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. — 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
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.” — 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
