A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not… — 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
“The fast-food hamburger has been brilliantly engineered to offer a succulent and tasty first bite, a bite that in fact would be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So what exactly would an ecological detective set loose in an American supermarket discover, were he to trace the items in his… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — 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
Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain.… — 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
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
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
“We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
