If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry. Michael Pollan More Quotes by Michael Pollan More Quotes From Michael Pollan Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk. Michael Pollan cereal color breakfast America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes? Michael Pollan sugar-cookies environmental america My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. Michael Pollan atheism writing littles I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. Michael Pollan development land way Avoid foods you see advertised on television. Michael Pollan television Stop eating before you're full. Michael Pollan eating Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others Michael Pollan size shapes self The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. Michael Pollan unhappy happy-life thinking To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction. Michael Pollan things-in-life practice sound Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. Michael Pollan cost tables matter Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television. Michael Pollan television Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong. Michael Pollan pests disease way Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also have less toxic residue. Science is still catching up with this. J. Agric. Food. Chem. Vol. 51, no. 5, 2003. Michael Pollan toxic healthy needs ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food. Michael Pollan east cooking energy People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. Michael Pollan nature joy people The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. Michael Pollan journalism bigs leader Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what it really cost. If that was the reality, then every meal would have the potential to be a perfect meal. Michael Pollan land simple reality Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full. Michael Pollan population principles practice Another thing cooking is, or can be, is 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. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it. Michael Pollan grace animal people Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. Michael Pollan grandmother health food
