The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into… — 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
For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be… — 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
