We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to eat well if you're willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but… — 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
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“-perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love? — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a… — 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
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
“As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity… — 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
If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Animals raised on corn produce fattier meat, but it's not just that it's fattier, it's the kinds of fats. Corn-fed beef produces… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — 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
“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap. — 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
“...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… — 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 restored the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
