Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less… — 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
The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don't do well on raw food: they can't maintain their body weight, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — 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
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This… — 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
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
“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
