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
firsts banquets bites
The banquet is in the first bite.
pride evil sin
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
mind tests world
There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.
letting-go offending people
There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
california labels genetically-modified
California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.
vegetables eating illness
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.
rewards daydreaming form
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
political energy audience
The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
apples hungry enough
If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.
feet quality odor
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.
plant
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
home phones cells
We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.
unions tests campaigns
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.
relationship mean world
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.