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… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food… — 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
Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“All of our uncertainties about nutrition should not obscure the plain fact that the chronic diseases that now kill most of us… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Boiled food is life,’ Levi-Strauss writes, ‘roast food death.’ He reports finding countless examples in the world’s folklore of ‘cauldrons of immortality,’… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that… — 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
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
“One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject… — 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
“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
