What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats;… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you… — 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
It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will… — 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
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper… — 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
