Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Europeans fought for shorter workdays, more vacation time, family leave, and all these kinds of things. Those haven't been priorities in America:… — 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
