The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — 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
I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Use the apple test "If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Four of the top ten causes of death today are chronic diseases with well-established links to diet: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at… — 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
In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“ You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a… — 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
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
I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating in our time has gotten complicated — needlessly so, in my opinion. I will get to the “needlessly” part in a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is… — 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
“A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging,… — 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
“To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, — 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
