Michael Pollan

“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.”

“Even if you don’t think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.”

“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.”

“Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.”

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”