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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. — Michael Pollan

Do all your eating at a table. — Michael Pollan

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When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way. — Tracy Pollan

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain. — Michael Pollan

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. — Michael Pollan

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — Michael Pollan

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again. — Tracy Pollan

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy. — Tracy Pollan

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. — Michael Pollan

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. — Michael Pollan

Improving the soil improved the man. — Michael Pollan

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

Leave something on your plate ... 'Better to go to waste than to waist — Michael Pollan

What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years? — Michael Pollan

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too. — Michael Pollan

always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to. — Michael Pollan

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place. — Michael Pollan

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it. — Michael Pollan

Umami ... is the quasi-secret heart and soul of almost every braise, stew, and soup. — Michael Pollan

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. — Michael Pollan

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car. — Michael Pollan

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too. — Michael Pollan

There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back. — Michael Pollan

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. — Michael Pollan

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

But that's the challenge
to change the system more than it changes you. — Michael Pollan

Forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. — Michael Pollan

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk. — Michael Pollan

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. — Michael Pollan

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. — Michael Pollan

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. — Michael Pollan

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food. — Michael Pollan

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you. — Michael Pollan

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. — Michael Pollan

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it's natural
in all likelihood is not. — Michael Pollan

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you. — Michael Pollan

I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better. — Michael Pollan

It's not food if it's called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles.) . — Michael Pollan

It's astonishing, actually, how much anger an animal's assault on your garden can incite. — Michael Pollan

The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in. — Michael Pollan

So that's us: processed corn, walking. — Michael Pollan

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice. — Michael Pollan

I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance. — Michael Pollan

The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style. — Michael Pollan

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things. — 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 draw the line. — Michael Pollan

Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap. — Michael Pollan

A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well. — Michael Pollan

Except for the salt and a handful of synthetic food additives, every edible item in the supermarket is a link in a food chain. — Michael Pollan

Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan, — Michael Pollan

Writing is about music ... finding the music of a sentence ... — Michael Pollan

Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different. — Tracy Pollan

Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me. — Tracy Pollan

Corporations cook very differently from how people do. — Michael Pollan

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

Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing or, — Michael Pollan

The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it. — Michael Pollan

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1 — Michael Pollan

I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food. — Michael Pollan

As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time. — Michael Pollan

there are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it themselves. — Michael Pollan

Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we're eating animals. — Michael Pollan

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry. — Michael Pollan

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. — Michael Pollan

People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land. — Michael Pollan

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table. — Tracy Pollan

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. — Michael Pollan

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. — Michael Pollan

S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets - except on days that begin with the letter S. — Michael Pollan

Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone. — Michael Pollan

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, — Michael Pollan

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables. — Michael Pollan

What should we have for dinner? — Michael Pollan

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else. — Michael Pollan

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television. — Michael Pollan

For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. — Michael Pollan

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating. — Michael Pollan

(Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.) — Michael Pollan

It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture. — Michael Pollan

As fire's presence in our everyday lives has diminished, the social magnetism of the cook fire seems, if anything, to have only grown more powerful. — Michael Pollan

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

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. — Michael Pollan

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too. — Michael Pollan

For as long as the carnival of capitalism lasts, the rules of logic are repealed ... — Michael Pollan

Food is a costly antidepressant. — Michael Pollan

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. — Michael Pollan

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants. — Michael Pollan

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men. — Michael Pollan

The banquet is in the first bite. — Michael Pollan

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. — 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

[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process. — Michael Pollan

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has. — Michael Pollan

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. — Michael Pollan

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting. — Michael Pollan

Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. — Michael Pollan