Michael Pollan Quotes about Cooking

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Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

Michael Pollan

Cooking, Important, Scratches

Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.1, Penguin

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.

Michael Pollan

Cooking, Important, Might

The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.

Michael Pollan

Cooking, Faces, Problem

Source: indianapublicmedia.org

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

Michael Pollan

Cooking, Important, Use

Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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.

Michael Pollan

Eye, Cooking, Alive

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

Michael Pollan

Cooking, Sugar, Corporations

Source: indianapublicmedia.org

...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

Michael Pollan

Cooking, Energy, East

Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.180, Penguin

If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

Michael Pollan

Cooking, Calories, Ifs

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Michael Pollan

Food, Grandmother, Cooking

Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.1, Penguin

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.

Michael Pollan

Men, Fire, Cooking

Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.38, Penguin

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

Michael Pollan

Animal, Cooking, Example

Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing