When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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
“My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Me and the folks who buy my food are like the Indians -- we just want to opt out. That's all the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“By now, cooking has become so thickly crusted with pretension and gadgetry and marketing hype that the effort to reduce it to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the… — 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
“Sooner or later your fingers close on that one moist-cold spud that the spade has accidentally sliced clean through, shining wetly white… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It may also be that, quite apart from any specific references one food makes to another, it is the very allusiveness of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us… — 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
“Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. — 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 is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world.… — 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
