Michael Pollan citations

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Contexte: It's [a kitchen/dining table] where we teach our children the manners they need to get along in society. We teach them how to share. To take turns. To argue without fighting and insulting other people. They learn the art of adult conversation. The family meal is the nursery of democracy.

Contexte: We forget how much time it can take simply to avoid cooking: all that time spent driving to restaurants or waiting for our orders, none of which gets counted as 'food preparation'. And much of the half-hour saved by not cooking is spent watching screens.

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Contexte: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. 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.

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

[Unhappy Meals, 2007-01-28, The New York Times Magazine, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ei=5090&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ex=1327640400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print, 2007-01-28]