“Boiled food is life,’ Levi-Strauss writes, ‘roast food death.’ He reports finding countless examples in the world’s folklore of ‘cauldrons of immortality,’… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Our society assigns us a tiny number of roles: We're producers of one thing at work, consumers of a great many things… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual’s control—what happens to our jobs,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to.” — 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
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — 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
“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
