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
Michael Pollan quotes about
beautiful miracle design
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.
doe recognition mystery
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.
bread
Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.
dirty alternatives dozen
There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.
good-food motivated more-money
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
long community together
Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.
profound mind engagement
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
people choices information
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.
taste chickens
When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.
important corporations cooks
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.
subsidies poverty environment
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
middle periphery shops
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
fun attention pay
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.
eye cooking alive
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.