Culture Quotes by Michael Pollan

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

— Michael Pollan

“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”

— Michael Pollan

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

— Michael Pollan

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming…

— Michael Pollan

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of…

— Michael Pollan

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

Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that…

— Michael Pollan

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our…

— Michael Pollan

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the…

— Michael Pollan

“Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save…

— Michael Pollan

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

— Michael Pollan

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you…

— Michael Pollan

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into…

— Michael Pollan

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes…

— Michael Pollan

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

“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

The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it…

— Michael Pollan

“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for…

— Michael Pollan