Michael Pollan

“A good pot holds memories.”

— Michael Pollan

“CONSULT YOUR GUT.”

— Michael Pollan

Do all your eating at a table.

— Michael Pollan

Eating is a political act.

— Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

— Michael Pollan

“EAT WILD FOODS WHEN YOU CAN.”

— Michael Pollan

“TRY NOT TO EAT ALONE.”

— Michael Pollan

The real food is not being advertised

— Michael Pollan

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

— Michael Pollan

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

— Michael Pollan

Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

— Michael Pollan

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

— Michael Pollan

Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.

— Michael Pollan

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

— Michael Pollan

Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.

— Michael Pollan

“Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There”

— Michael Pollan

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

— Michael Pollan

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

— Michael Pollan

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

— Michael Pollan

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

— Michael Pollan

“But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.”

— Michael Pollan

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

— Michael Pollan

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

— Michael Pollan

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

— Michael Pollan

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

“Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too…

— Michael Pollan

“researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the…

— Michael Pollan

“Two of the most nutritious plants in the world —lamb’s quarters and purslane—are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like…

— Michael Pollan

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats;…

— Michael Pollan

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in…

— Michael Pollan

“Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or,…

— Michael Pollan

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of…

— Michael Pollan

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize…

— Michael Pollan

“[I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even…

— Michael Pollan

If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does…

— Michael Pollan

“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance…

— Michael Pollan

“The fast-food hamburger has been brilliantly engineered to offer a succulent and tasty first bite, a bite that in fact would be…

— Michael Pollan

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

— Michael Pollan

“I had actually wanted to say something more, to express a wider gratitude for the meal we were about to eat, but…

— Michael Pollan

“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though…

— Michael Pollan