Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History Of Transformation Quotes

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook, " "butcher, " and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.