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
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — 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
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean,… — 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
We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize these four crops - five altogether, but one is cotton - and these are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies… — 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
