Culture Quote by Michelle Obama

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

— Michael Pollan

“Fast-food outlets are cultural institutions dedicated not only to dealing with mankind's compulsion to eat and drink regularly, but also to doing battle with…

— Margaret Visser

“But habits emerge without our permission. Studies indicate that families usually don’t intend to eat fast food on a regular basis. What happens is…

— Charles Duhigg

“Food used to be something you’d eat at meals. Meals used to be occasions when you’d sit down at the table and eat home-cooked…

— Alex Brecher

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

— John Mackey

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.…

— Dana Goodyear

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on…

— Eric Schlosser

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become…

— Alison Gopnik

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Our 'convenience culture' translates into too-available entertainment options, fast food, sedentary transportation, and the like. The fact is, if you want to eat right…

— Bruce Broussard

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem…

— Isabel Allende

“Every McDonald’s, for instance, looks the same—the company deliberately tries to standardize stores’ architecture and what employees say to customers, so everything is a…

— Charles Duhigg