I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know -… — 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
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
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi… — 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
