My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access… — 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… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — 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
There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the… — 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
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So… — 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
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