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
humanity sun eating
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
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,
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.
apples hungry enough
If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.
lines today eating
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
rotting real-food incapable
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
plant made ifs
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
corn-syrup numbers ingredients
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
subsidies poverty environment
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
couple storytelling
The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.
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.
meals enjoy
Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it
discovery answers facts
I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.
disappointment care reform
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.