Eat all the junk food you want – as long as you
“Eat all the junk food you want – as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it’ll be less junky, and you won’t eat it every day because it’s a lot of work.”
Michael Pollan
This is a collection of quotes about food from Michael Pollan.
The first step in reforming appetite is going from
“The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.”
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We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque
“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.”
Perhaps more than any other the food industry is very
“Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.”
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My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time
“My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.”
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A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would
“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.”
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The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern
“The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.”
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People in Slow Food understand that food is
“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”
French cooking is really the result of peasants
“French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn’t start out that way.”