“It may be that a taste for Bittor’s cooking, for his obsessive, slightly mad investigation into the nature of wood and fire… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It's cheaper than McDonald's in many places and far more delicious. On the other hand, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food. — 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
“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
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
People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little… — 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
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food choices are something fundamental you can control about yourself: what you take into your body. When so many other things are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though… — 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
Hillary Clinton is not strongly identified with reforming the industrial food system. The Clintons were involved with Walmart and Tyson in Arkansas.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Handling these plants and animals, taking back the production and the preparation of even just some part of our food, has the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the “French paradox,” for how could a people who eat such… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“there are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it… — 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
