... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly… — 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
The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Since nutrients, as compared with foods, are invisible and therefore slightly mysterious, it falls to the scientists (and to the journalists through… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread… — 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
I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how… — 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
