I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — 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
Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact… — 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
“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
