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
disappointment care reform
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.
food garden might
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
plant made ifs
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
years people enough
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.
children issues choices
Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
order healthy confusing
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
healing cake chocolate
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
environment lawns totalitarian-regimes
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
community identity fuel
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
cooking important scratches
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
wall animal meat-industry
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.
powerful mean today
For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.
cells medicine peers
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
sweet wind apples
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)