Culture Quote by Michael Pollan

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing,…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's…

— Michael Pollan

The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when…

— Michael Moss

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

— Michael Pollan

The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I…

— Robert Irvine

“Regardless of the recent hunger for handcrafted foods, they remain a niche market within the grocery store. America simply didn’t have many centuries during…

— Michael Ruhlman

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn…

— Anonymous

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need…

— Denise Mina

When you grow up where healthy food isn't easily accessible, you eat a lot of processed food and whatever else is available - McDonalds,…

— Jabari Parker

Family dinner is how we civilize our children. It is how we get them into good habits like drinking water with supper, saying please…

— Laurie David

We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about…

— Adam Conover

The food industry has forced people in-between two choices, either quality food that tastes great and takes a lot of work to make or…

— Gagan Biyani