If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have. Michael Pollan
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
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Ruth Reichl
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read–unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
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E. Nesbit
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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David Mamet
When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.
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Anthony T. Hincks
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Michael Pollan
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...
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal...
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into...
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from...
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the...
