Michael Pollan Quotes About Food

Quotes about: Food

• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

• 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

• 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

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

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Home, Stories

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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