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Michael Pollan, Mario Batali, Alice Waters, & Samin Nosrat talk about the benefits of cooking at home.
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Mr. Food Revolution, Michael Pollan, as a new book out called Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. He tells Weekend Edition:
[T]here’s something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It’s where we learn to share, it’s where we learn to argue without offending. It’s just too critical to let go, as we’ve been so blithely doing.”
Here’s a 2006 interview with Pollan.
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Mr. Food Revolution, Michael Pollan, as a new book out called Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. He tells Weekend Edition:
[T]here’s something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It’s where we learn to share, it’s where we learn to argue without offending. It’s just too critical to let go, as we’ve been so blithely doing.”
Here’s a 2006 interview with Pollan.
Image from Pollan’s Food Rules, illustrated by Maira Kalman via Improvised Life
From Michael Pollan’s new book Cooked
From Michael Pollan’s new book Cooked
Michael Pollan on Restaurant Culture
From his in-depth Q&A in New York
Adam Platt: What’s your view on restaurant culture these days? Do you eat out a lot?
Michael Pollan: Probably once or twice a week. I think restaurant culture has gotten really decadent and way too precious. If I have to have another fourteen-course meal where I have to listen to a waiter give me the recipe before every course and interrupt my conversation with the friend I’m with, or with my wife—I’m just so tired of that.
Adam Platt: Join the crowd.
Michael Pollan: I really like simpler food, and I really like restaurants that leave you alone. What satisfies me is simple food really well prepared—and prepared with conviction. I’m a little tired of restaurant culture, and I really like to cook. And, this sounds weird, but I sort of feel we’re being deprived of the pleasure of cooking. There are a lot of people, in corporate cooking and restaurant culture, telling us, “No, let us cook for you.”
“People are beginning to rebel against the ways in which we’ve increased our dependence on corporations to provide for us. The food movement has its problems, and its struggles will probably increase. But it offers people so much. Fighting for environmental causes can be really discouraging. The food movement offers pleasure in the fight. It’s one of those rare instances where the right choice is usually the more pleasurable choice, where you can align your ethics and your hedonism. Tell me: where else in life do you get to do that?”
