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
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vegetables eating illness
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.
rewards daydreaming form
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
political energy audience
The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
apples hungry enough
If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.
feet quality odor
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.
plant
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
home phones cells
We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.
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.
relationship mean world
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
people choices needs
The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.
white clouds bird
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
writing stakes
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.
sugar grocery-stores fats
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.
progress culture landscape
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.