Michael Pollan Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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

• ... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

  Michael Pollan

  Profound, Mind, Culture

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Community, Together

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.16, Penguin

• Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

  Michael Pollan

  Mom, Culture, Fancy

• Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.

  Michael Pollan

  Sex, Flower, Men

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.97, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Cooking, Example

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when we seek to maximize efficiency by planting crops or raising animals in vast mono-cultures. This is something nature never does, always and for good reasons practicing diversity instead. A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our attempts to oversimplify nature's complexities, at both the growing and the eating ends of our food chain.

  Michael Pollan

  Technology, Animal, Diversity

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

• More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, What Matters, Diversity

• The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible to escape. Still, we can try.

  Michael Pollan

  Weather, Trying, Quality

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.28, Penguin

• I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

  Michael Pollan

  Simple, Thinking, Long

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

  Michael Pollan

  Progress, Culture, Landscape

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