Michael Pollan
Born: 02-05-1955
Michael Pollan is a renowned American author and journalist, celebrated for his exploration of the intersections between nature and culture. Specializing in food, agriculture, and human health, he has penned influential works like "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food." A prolific writer, Pollan contributes to The New York Times Magazine and teaches at Harvard University and UC Berkeley, inspiring readers to rethink their relationship with food and the environment.
Book summaries for books written by Michael Pollan
Quotes
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world.
When chickens get to live like chickens, they’ll taste like chickens, too.
The corn is in everything. It’s in the meat, the milk, the soda, the soup.
There is every reason to think that eating industrial meat takes an even greater toll on the environment than driving a Hummer.
We are what we eat, eats.
The way we eat has changed more in the last fifty years than in the previous ten thousand.
The great virtue of hunting as a recreation is that it puts us in touch with the world we live in.
For if cooking is an art, it is also a science.
Every meal is a sacrifice.
You are what you eat, and if you eat industrial food, you are made of them.
The family meal is the nursery of democracy.