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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Michael Pollan
This is a collection of quotes about food from Michael Pollan.
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.”
Even if you don’t think you can cook well you can
“Even if you don’t think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.”
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