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The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.

Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government.
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You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.
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I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.
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It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
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I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.
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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.
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People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.
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Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
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For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.
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We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.
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Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
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Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.
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When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.
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People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.
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He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
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Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
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A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.
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Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also have less toxic residue. Science is still catching up with this. J. Agric. Food. Chem. Vol. 51, no. 5, 2003.
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The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.
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A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.
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