We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that -… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love? — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain. — 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
