Michael Pollan Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• 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

• 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

• Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

  Michael Pollan

  Way, Eating, Knows

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.205, Bloomsbury Publishing

• 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

• ... 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

• One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us - heart disease, cancer, diabetes - were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.

  Michael Pollan

  Cancer, Heart, Thinking

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

• One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Issues, People

  "Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act". Interview with Mark Eisen, www.alternet.org. November 7, 2008.

• People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, People, Profound

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

• One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Eating, Illness

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.195, Penguin

• 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

• 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

• Eating is a political act.

  Michael Pollan

  Political, Eating, Eco

• That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Ideas, People

• Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

  Michael Pollan

  Humanity, Sun, Eating

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Grace

• Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

  Michael Pollan

  Cost, Tables, Matter

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Do all your eating at a table.

  Michael Pollan

  Tables, Eating

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.125, Penguin

• If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

  Michael Pollan

  Eating, Ifs

• Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Kind, Eating

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Meat Eating, Too Much

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what it really cost. If that was the reality, then every meal would have the potential to be a perfect meal.

  Michael Pollan

  Simple, Reality, Land

• 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

  People, Choices, Firsts

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

• People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains and fruits and vegetables.Populations who eat that way have seriously high incidences of chronic diseases.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, People, Meat

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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