The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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
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
For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — 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
All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is… — 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
The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or… — 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
