Michael Pollan Quotes

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• Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it…
• Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
• Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.
• My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
• America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap…
• Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit…
• Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to…
• Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
• This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
• Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most powerful things an…
• It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you…
• The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.
• The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of…
• Eating is a political act.
• Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does
• The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
• Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a…
• The real food is not being advertised
• For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and…
• California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the…

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