It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.
Michael PollanCooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.
Michael PollanFood is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
Michael PollanThere are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.
Michael Pollan