Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 February 1955
CityLong Island, NY
CountryUnited States of America
teacher writing class
I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear.
made caps
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
zero garden thinking
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
missing ingredients recipes
Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.
garden past century
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
ordinary forget moments
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
garden tree wagers
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
growing ingredients states
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
thinking objectivity goal
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not
cooking sugar corporations
One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.
way eating knows
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
meals enjoy
Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it
challenges
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
country thinking years
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.