Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael PollanRead
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of sharing meals as a cultural and familial ritual rather than just a biological necessity.
Michael Pollan's quote reflects on how eating together transforms a simple act of sustenance into a deeper cultural and familial experience. By sharing meals, we engage with one another, fostering connections and creating a sense of community that transcends the mere biological need for food, turning it into a celebration of culture and togetherness.
Themes
Shared MealFamilyCommunityCultureEating
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used when discussing the importance of family dinners at a family gathering.
More from Michael Pollan
All quotes →You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one of those sugar delivery systems in our food economy.
Michael PollanRead
There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made eating these formerly expensive and hard-to-make treats so cheap and easy that we're eating them every day.
Michael PollanRead
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.
Michael PollanRead
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
Michael PollanRead
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
Michael PollanRead
Similar quotes
And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.
Michelle WilliamsRead
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
David BowieRead
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
Tony DungyRead
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas PaineRead
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.
Toni MorrisonRead
Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.
Erma BombeckRead