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
health grandmother nutrition
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these
fitness car window
It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
food agriculture division
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
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
issues people environmental
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
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.
food home stories
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
dog animal intelligent
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.
growing ingredients states
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
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.
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
missing ingredients recipes
Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.