“As I’ve heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it’s not YOUR time.” — 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
Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from 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
There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and… — 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
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
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If… — 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
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the… — 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
We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Supermarkets in Denmark have experimented with adding a second bar code to packages of meat that when scanned at a kiosk in… — 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
For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat… — 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
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I like the taste of grass-fed meat. It is chewier, I'll own that... The Argentines make excellent beef that's grass-fed. They've learned… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To eat well, you either have to invest money or time. If you can put in some time, the raw ingredients are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm very picky about the meat I eat. I eat grass-fed beef, which is now becoming more common. Yes, it's still more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not… — 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
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. — 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
![“Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar logic: First this, then that; put this in here, and then out comes that. But the relationship between cows and chickens on this [Polyface] farm...takes the…” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/57b/michael-pollan-408_biological-farming_industrial-processes-follow-a-clear-line_381840.jpg)
