Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on… — 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
