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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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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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I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces a day. That's probably more than is good for us and it's certainly more than is good for the environment.
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I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.
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If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.
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Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. (Hard cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)
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Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.
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If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.
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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
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There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.
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Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
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I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be buying real food and not processed food, so that means the farmers will capture more of your food dollar.
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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.
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Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
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Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much.
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High-quality food is better for your health.
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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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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
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I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.
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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
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