Bread Quote by Michael Pollan

“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

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

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

— Michael Pollan

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

“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

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

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

“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

“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”

— Michael Pollan

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

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

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

— Michael Pollan