People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet. Michael Pollan More Quotes by Michael Pollan More Quotes From Michael Pollan Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does Michael Pollan fuel car doe There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. Michael Pollan occasions special long Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health. Michael Pollan cooking important might Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food. Michael Pollan fun pay attention Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan eating-well dieting food Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives. Michael Pollan ingredients recipes missing Better to pay the grocer than the doctor. Michael Pollan grocers doctors pay But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter. Michael Pollan editors careers tree Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share. Michael Pollan tissues tears people If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare. Michael Pollan healthcare healthy people Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air. Michael Pollan taken simple mean Don't eat anything incapable of rotting. Michael Pollan real-food rotting incapable Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America. Michael Pollan impact meat america Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these Michael Pollan nutrition grandmother health Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap. Michael Pollan caps made At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. Michael Pollan stories home food When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight. Michael Pollan alive cooking eye Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup Michael Pollan corn-syrup ingredients numbers Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying. Michael Pollan consciousness eating appreciation While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187 Michael Pollan phones food two
