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Michael Pollan
American
Educator
Cooking
Eat
Food
People
Time
You
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To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.
Michael Pollan
Work
Me
Made
Way
Distinct
Gives
Kitchen
Purpose
Feeding
Reminded
How
Came
Up
Itself
Mammal
Quite
Where
Hog
Story
Interest
Apart
Shoulder
Large
Groups
Keener
Found
Pork
Butcher
Muscles
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.
Michael Pollan
Food
You
Culture
Simple
Plants
Will
Independence
Animals
Thinking
Find
About
Simple Act
Simply
Soon
Greatly
Improved
Diet
Microwave
Just
Again
Declare
Ingredients
Act
Cook
Your
Plants And Animals
Fast
Fast Food
Start
Starting
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
Michael Pollan
Best
Better
Farm
Society
Jobs
City
Rural
Factories
Devalued
Students
Supply
Counties
Occupation
Leave
Encouraged
America
Order
Urban
Workers
Farming
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
Michael Pollan
Think
Objectivity
Unrealistic
Perfect
Fairness
However
Goal
If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.
Michael Pollan
You
Light
Negative
Possibly
Eating
Footprint
Your
Meat
Even
Carbon
I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar - much more than you would ever use at home.
Michael Pollan
Home
You
Cooking
Key
Too Much
Salt
Control
Think
Sugar
Too
Back
Way
Corporations
Would
More
Only
Fact
Tend
Take
Well
Because
Than
Going
Diet
Want
Far
Us
Much
Really
Cook
Use
Your
Who
Ever
Fat
Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.
Michael Pollan
People
Other
Pleasure
Possible
Eat
Deliberately
Always
Whenever
We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.
Michael Pollan
Love
Salt
Sugar
Our
Those
Trip
Networks
Go
Which
Craving
Flavors
Fat
You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry.
Michael Pollan
You
World
Language
Plants
Spider
Release
Out
Bean
Attacked
Attacks
Volatile
Know
Another
Chemical
Does
Goes
While
Species
Biochemistry
Consciousness
Defending
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable.
Michael Pollan
Food
Agriculture
Embrace
More
Prices
Driven
Making
Up
Sustainable
Ethanol
The way you support farmers is by shopping and buying raw ingredients.
Michael Pollan
You
Shopping
Way
Raw
Support
Ingredients
Farmers
Buying
For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask yourself if you're really hungry - before you eat and then again along the way.
Michael Pollan
You
Entertainment
Yourself
Try
Reward
Before
Way
Hunger
Hungry
Ourselves
Out
Boredom
Eat
Eating
Along
Comfort
Surprisingly
Again
Little
Ask
Then
Us
Really
Many
Aware
Why
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.
Michael Pollan
You
Added
Fats
Fattest
Find
Foods
Cheapest
Make
Calories
Go
Going
Store
Processed
Grocery
Grocery Store
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
Michael Pollan
Good
Me
Hopeless
Build
Preserves
Way
Markets
See
Some
Directly
Had
Development
Makes
How
Optimist
Articles
Land
Farmers
Fortune
Products
Helped
Good Fortune
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
Michael Pollan
Experience
Writing
Finding
About
Direct
Direct Experience
Always
Been
Very
Anyway
Interested
Places
Stand
Useful
Found
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.
Michael Pollan
Politics
Black
Black Hole
About
Simply
Mainstream
Journalists
Talk
Parties
American
Cannot
Hole
Meaning
American Politics
Agree
Larger
Things
Here
Two
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Michael Pollan
Leadership
Political
Pay
Pay Attention
Rather
Attention
Journalists
Supposed
Antagonism
Issues
Than
Should
Agree
Things
It's no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television - or educational television, as it used to be called. On a commercial network, a program that actually inspired viewers to get off the couch and spend an hour cooking a meal would be a commercial disaster, for it would mean they were turning off the television to do something else.
Michael Pollan
Cooking
Accident
Meal
Else
Spend
Television
Would
Would-Be
Something
Something Else
Network
Couch
Inspired
Hour
Disaster
Were
Educational
Julia
Off
Commercial
Child
Get
Public
Mean
Turning
Used
Viewers
Appeared
Actually
Program
The euphemistically named CropLife America speaks for the pesticide industry.
Michael Pollan
Named
Industry
America
Speaks
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.
Michael Pollan
Work
Politics
Time
Food
You
Political
Economics
Once
Find
More
Over
Deal
Gotten
Anthropology
Up
Different
Psychology
Against
Exploring
Different Things
Things
Start
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.
Michael Pollan
Food
Relationship
Writing
Plants
Focus
Before
About
Only
Human
Psychologically
Us
Really
Bodily
Nourish
Started
I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three.
Michael Pollan
Hope
You
Cooking
Try
Three
Nights
Week
Two
How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.
Michael Pollan
Garden
Son
Vegetables
How
Discovered
Them
Growing
Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat them every day. Make them special again by cooking them yourself. You won't do it every day, I promise.
Michael Pollan
Day
You
Cooking
Yourself
Every Day
Problem
Big
Become
Every
Our
Promise
Easy
Eat
Foods
Cheap
Cakes
Like
Make
Fried
Big Problem
Again
Etc
Them
Special
If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.
Michael Pollan
You
People
Agriculture
Farm
Okay
Kind
City
New
Piece
End
Up
York
Committee
Going
Represent
Committees
Legislation
Commodity
Representatives
New York
New York City
Interest
Your
Farmers
Special
Special Interest
Bills
Fill
You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one of those sugar delivery systems in our food economy.
Michael Pollan
Food
You
Become
Sugar
Our
Typical
Those
Systems
Supermarket
Delivery
Economy
Look
How
How Much
Lot
Just
Bread
Much
Loaf
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