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Michael Pollan says that when people know where their food comes from, they tend to choose healthier options, and that simple cooking tricks can stretch nutrition. He points out that sharing a meal from the same pot builds community, and that voting with forks—picking foods that match values—feels empowering. A family dinner is described as a small classroom of democracy where people learn to share.

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...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

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Corporations cook very differently from how people do.

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Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

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People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

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Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

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The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at…

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Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?

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After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't…

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People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

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“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for…

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People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really…

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This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill…

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Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider…

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There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the…

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I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where…

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Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks,…

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The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and…

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Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are…

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This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to…

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There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious…

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We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any…

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Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's…

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While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both,…

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In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know -…

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That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of…

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But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of…

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If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.

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People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a…

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Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not…

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Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the…

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What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

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In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not…

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People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more…

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The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of…

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My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access…

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There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's…

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I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the…

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We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow…

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Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi…

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People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox…

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My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the…

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Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

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“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

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…

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their…

“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the…

“CONSULT YOUR GUT.”