One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual’s control—what happens to our jobs,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they're so much… — 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
