Michael Pollan Quotes

You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.

My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

I love simple foods as well as grand. Dinners that take a half-hour from skillet to plate are as important as a five-course dinner. A meal that can materialize in an hour and be presented with care, love and pride is something every busy person longs to be able to do.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

I don't really like going out for dinner. It's way better to not have to wait for food... It's quite boring. I don't cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I'm more of a transferer than a cook.

The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.

I talk about the food issue, I'm really coming at it from pre-White House times, when I was a working mother with a busy husband, a very demanding job and two little kids to feed.... I had to learn what it means to feed and care for your kids in a country where fast food is abundant, where time is a rarity, where eating out is a trend, because families are so busy.... Yes, I'm First Lady, but I know the struggles.

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

I'm actually a good cook.

I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.

I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.

I'm not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that's about it.

I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.