We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.
Michael PollanMy native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
Michael PollanWhen chopping onions, just chop onions.
Michael PollanThe transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.
Michael Pollan[I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even close. Exactly why, I’m not sure, but it may be that cooking over fire is so straightforward that the people who do it feel a need to baste the process in thick layers of intricacy and myth. It could also be that barbecue is performed disproportionately by self-dramatizing men.
Michael PollanA good pot holds memories.
Michael PollanIf we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel … In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.
Michael PollanUmami…is the quasi-secret heart and soul of almost every braise, stew, and soup.
Michael PollanA French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.
Michael PollanAs I’ve heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it’s not YOUR time.
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