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
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.
mind tests world
There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.
cooking important might
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
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.
doctors pay grocers
Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.
ingredients thirds containing
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
natural feels likelihood
Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.
food eating-well dieting
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
challenges
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.