Michael Pollan Quotes

The food we eat is our identity. The youth of the nation must save our food culture and traditions. If not, it will affect future generations.

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.

For me, food is all about nostalgia.

The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.

Writers like John T. Edge, whose work is all about the cultural histories behind food, have done so much to show that these stories are a really vital part of our cultural heritage.

I'm going to work on food culture and help food become fun and part of peoples' lives again. The traditional restaurant is more commercial-oriented. But I want community through food.

France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.

I am Indian and a chef with Indian heritage.

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

To know a community is to know its food.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

I grew up in Lucknow, which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.