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Cooking Quotes by Michael Pollan

35 Cooking quotes by Michael Pollan

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When Michael Pollan talks about cooking, he ties the act to larger patterns of life and society. Here 35 of his observations trace the thread from simple ingredients to the cultural rituals that shape our plates, giving readers a clear sense of his reflective approach.

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I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

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We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.

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I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three.

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If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

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“For me, cooking is about seeking the deepest, farthest, richest flavors in everything I make. About extracting the absolute most out of…

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Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in…

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The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that…

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One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to…

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French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food…

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Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

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Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do…

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It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will…

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Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,…

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“For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or…

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“Uncle Jeff insisted that I also take a tray of unseasoned barbecue, so I could see for myself that what's going on…

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A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which…

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It's no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television - or educational television, as it used to be called. On a…

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I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be…

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As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing…

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I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the…

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“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes…

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“Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is…

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I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made…

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In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know -…

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When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in…

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“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought…

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“Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation…

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When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain.…

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Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat…

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“If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner…

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We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any…

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“Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most…

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Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi…

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...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging,…

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“Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly…

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“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

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My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the…

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The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

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Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

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“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.”

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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…

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“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay…

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“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”

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Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

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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…

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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

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