A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
McDonald's is in a unique position. They can decide they don't want meat with hormones in it, and that will be the… — 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
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the… — 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
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is… — 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
“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
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
“The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Cream—the richest, sweetest part of milk—is of course our first flavor, the taste, in a spoon, of life’s first freshness and innocence,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in… — 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
“After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a… — 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
Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare… — 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
I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they're so much… — 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
It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We're constantly reading about scientific studies that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“There are scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from all the… — 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
