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Food Quotes by Michael Pollan

310 Food quotes by Michael Pollan

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If you’ve ever wondered why we choose what lands on our plates, Pollan’s extensive observations walk you through the cultural, ecological, and personal forces shaping our meals. His words stitch together science and storytelling, giving you a richer sense of what we really eat.

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Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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Do all your eating at a table.

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Eating is a political act.

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High-quality food is better for your health.

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“TRY NOT TO EAT ALONE.”

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Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

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The real food is not being advertised

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Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

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Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

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If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

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“Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There”

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Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

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Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.

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If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.

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Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

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Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

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The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats;…

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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

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The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however…

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Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose…

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

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Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

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“It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to…

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“researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the…

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“Two of the most nutritious plants in the world —lamb’s quarters and purslane—are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like…

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

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“Boiled food is life,’ Levi-Strauss writes, ‘roast food death.’ He reports finding countless examples in the world’s folklore of ‘cauldrons of immortality,’…

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“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this…

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You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame.…

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Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere.…

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While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices…

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“[I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even…

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If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does…

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“The fast-food hamburger has been brilliantly engineered to offer a succulent and tasty first bite, a bite that in fact would be…

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Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that…

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“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though…

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Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has…

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“Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience…

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“The fact that the nutritional quality of a given food (and of that food's food) can vary not just in degree but…

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“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

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My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the…

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The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

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Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

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“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.”

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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…

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Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance…

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“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay…

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“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”

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Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

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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…

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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

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“...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…

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“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the…

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“CONSULT YOUR GUT.”

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