Quote

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

Michael Pollan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
Author
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Professor
Writer
Michael Kevin Pollan
Good
Consciousness
People
Full
Dilemma
Choices
Solving
Knowledge
Towards
Happens
Confidence
Firsts
Step
First
Eating
Make
Steps

More quotes by Michael Pollan

Image
If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.
Michael Pollan
Image
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.
Michael Pollan
Image
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.
Michael Pollan
Image
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
Image
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.
Michael Pollan
Image
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.
Michael Pollan
Image
We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.
Michael Pollan
Image
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.
Michael Pollan
Image
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
Michael Pollan
Image
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
Michael Pollan
Image
Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north
Michael Pollan
Image
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
Michael Pollan
Image
All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can.
Michael Pollan
Image
I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.
Michael Pollan
Image
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
Michael Pollan
Image
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
Michael Pollan
Image
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
Michael Pollan
Image
...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
Image
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
Michael Pollan
Image
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
Michael Pollan