Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however… — 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
Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our… — 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
The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don't do well on raw food: they can't maintain their body weight, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider… — 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
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction… — 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
