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Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.

~Michael Pollan

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Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and you won't eat it every day because it's a lot of work.

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When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of reminder to focus on the experience, enjoy those first bites, and as you get into the 20th bite, you're talking calories and not pleasure.

~Michael Pollan

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You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food.

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To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.

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As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

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I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.

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It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable.

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A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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