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Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan
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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. Michael Pollan
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Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal. Michael Pollan
Food Relationship You Animal Other Hungry Eat Mutual Something Feed Develops Genes Like Around Spread Very Squash Gradual Tasty Often Process Interdependence Species Apple Adaptation
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
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The euphemistically named CropLife America speaks for the pesticide industry. Michael Pollan
Named Industry America Speaks
Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement. Michael Pollan
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It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, fries, and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage - indeed, in the long sweep of history, this represents a remarkable achievement. Michael Pollan
Buy History Achievement Long Coke Indeed Minimum Minimum Wage Restaurant Able Small Price Remarkable Small Thing Hour Equal Cheeseburger Wage Go Labor Fries Than American Represents Double Sweep Less Large Thing
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
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain was a critic of ethanol, but when he got to Iowa, he was singing a different tune. Michael Pollan
You Singing Before Down President Though Critic He Bowing Iowa Without Got Passing Subsidies Different McCain Tune Mean Ethanol Elected Even Agricultural
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
My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them, you get a really wholesome, interesting picture. Michael Pollan
You Political Picture Philosophical Layer Writer Journalistic Scientific Mode Get Different Interesting Them Perspectives Really Different Perspectives Wholesome
I don't think of myself as a spiritual person. Michael Pollan
Myself Spiritual Think Spiritual Person Person
Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon. Michael Pollan
You Farm Releasing How Depending Either Your Carbon
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
When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame. Michael Pollan
You Vote Cooking Become Organic System Give Shame Outsource Up Offered Get Shop Dependent Want Grain Produce Cook Your Help Agricultural Pork Raised
A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances. Michael Pollan
Food You Would See Supermarket Argue Call Edible Lot Substances Really
I'm very picky about the meat I eat. I eat grass-fed beef, which is now becoming more common. Yes, it's still more expensive, but it's a very sustainable product. Michael Pollan
Eat About More Picky Becoming Still Beef Yes Very Common Expensive Sustainable Which Product Meat Now
To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're also going to be a lot healthier. Michael Pollan
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How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden. Michael Pollan
Garden Son Vegetables How Discovered Them Growing
One of my rules is pay more, eat less. You do get what you pay for, and if you're willing to pay more for pastured eggs or grass-fed beef, you're getting something that's more delicious, and you'll feel better about eating it. Michael Pollan
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Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle. Michael Pollan
Out Stay Supermarket Shop Middle
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal. Michael Pollan
Food Long Eat Food Chain Obscure Opaque Reveal Ready-Made End Very Information Packages Us Much Chain Now
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
Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help. Michael Pollan
Work Weed Farm More Devices Chemicals Hire Them Use Farmers Help Who Harder Basically
You don't need to know what an antioxidant is to eat well. Michael Pollan
You Eat Know Well Need
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson. Michael Pollan
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I've been amazed to learn all of the links between microbial health and our general health. This all started by trying to understand fermentation. The fermentation outside your body, and its relation to the fermentation inside your body. The key to health is fermentation, it turns out. Michael Pollan
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