Michael Pollan Quotes
Most popular Michael Pollan Quotes
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does.
Shop the peripheries of the supermarket & stay out of the middle.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting is another personal policy you might consider adopting.
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) Unfamiliar, B) Unpronounceable C) More than five in number, or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup.
Yes, forgetting can be a curse, especially as we age. But forgetting is also one of the more important things healthy brains do, almost as important as remembering.
You are what you eat eats too. That is, the diet of the animals we eat has a bearing on the nutritional quality, and healthfulness, of the food itself, whether it is meat or milk or eggs.
Eating with the fullest pleasure—pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance—is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. . . . Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.