Michael Pollan Quotes about Food

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Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Michael Pollan

Family, Food, Community

You are what what you eat eats.

Michael Pollan

Food, Healthy Eating, Eating

Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.112, Penguin

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Michael Pollan

Food, Eating Well, Dieting

Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Michael Pollan

Nature, Food, Garden

Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Michael Pollan

Food, Home, Stories

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Michael Pollan

Food, Hands, Healthy Eating

"In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto". Book by Michael Pollan, 2008.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Michael Pollan

Food, Animal, Community

Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.156, Penguin

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187

Michael Pollan

Food, Phones, Two

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Michael Pollan

Food, Agriculture, Division

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

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

Michael Pollan

Food, Health, Grandmother

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Michael Pollan

Food, Erosion, Fuel

"Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.