Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 February 1955
CityLong Island, NY
CountryUnited States of America
tables matter way
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost,
television
Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.
california labels genetically-modified
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 politics of food not just in California but nationally too.
writing finding-the-one phrases
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
leadership issues political
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
priorities different ethical
We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.
relationship mean world
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
white clouds bird
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
dirty school dark
If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.
unions tests campaigns
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.
plant
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
apples hungry enough
If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.
rewards daydreaming form
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
letting-go offending people
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 learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.