Michael PollanThinkers

Cooking is perhaps the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

Cooking is, when done thoughtfully, a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them.

Culture is just a fancy word for mom, the figure who typically passes on the food ways of the group which were never 'designed' for health, but have quietly kept eaters alive and well.

Culture is really just a fancy word for mom, the figure who typically passes on the food ways of the group.

The Environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

The Farm produces a lot more than food... it produces also a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

Food is not just a pile of chemicals... it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

The Garden is a place that suggests we can sometimes meet nature halfway.

A Lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

Nature is nothing but a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.