Michael Pollan Quotes

People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.

The real food is not being advertised.

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

I've cooked just about everything really.

Recipes are overrated.

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I try to cook them things that are lower in fat and see if they will eat them.

My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.

Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.

I'm passionate about cooking. I'm passionate about healthy eating. I'm passionate about inspiring other women.

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

Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

Straight up, Oreos, sodas, chips, salsa dips, egg white omelets, yogurts, breads, ketchups, mustards, barbecue sauce, frozen pizzas, hot pockets, ice cream, all these things that you eat in your normal life - I think if chefs got more involved in that, then it could be better. Because we're the ones that know flavor.

The traditional fast food model is built on buying the cheapest ingredients - and that usually means poor-quality, heavily processed foods. But you can use quality ingredients, cook food using classic cooking techniques, and still serve something that's fast and inexpensive.

As a student of Alice Waters, the patron saint of salad, I'm no stranger to the art of lettuce washing.