Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Raw foodists are kind of paddling upstream against evolution. The only reason they can do it, and they don't all keel over,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — 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
“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
