Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Europeans fought for shorter workdays, more vacation time, family leave, and all these kinds of things. Those haven't been priorities in America:… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to eat well if you're willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To eat well, you either have to invest money or time. If you can put in some time, the raw ingredients are… — 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
