Michael Pollan

"We learn from other people’s cooking, then we start making our own."

- Michael Pollan

"The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture."

- Michael Pollan

"Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food. Stay away from these."

- Michael Pollan

"Came from a plant, eat it; was made in a plant, don't."

- Michael Pollan

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

- Michael Pollan

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

- Michael Pollan

"Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well."

- Michael Pollan

"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

"You are what what you eat eats."

- Michael Pollan

"Much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection."

- Michael Pollan

"The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order."

- Michael Pollan