Michael Pollan

The Omnivore's Dilemma

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  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    In The Hungry SoulLeon Kass calls this the great paradox of eating: “that to preserve their life and form living things necessarily destroy life and form
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    We butcher, grind, chop, grate, mince, and liquefy raw ingredients, breaking down formerly living things so that we might recombine them in new, more cultivated forms
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    The Romans called it “usufruct,” which the dictionary defines as “the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another’s property short of the destruction or waste of its substance
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    The menu should feature at least one representative of each edible kingdom: animal, vegetable, and fungus, as well as an edible mineral (the salt).
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    Since the evolutionary strategy of fruiting plants is to recruit animals to transport their seeds, they’ve evolved to get themselves noticed, attracting us with their bright colors
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    yster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus)can digest a pile of petrochemical sludge in a fortnight, transforming the toxic waste into edible protein. (This alchemy makes more sense when you recall that what saprophytic mushrooms have evolved to do is break down complex organic molecules, which is precisely what petrochemicals are.)
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    Mexicans call mushrooms carne de los muertos—“flesh of the dead.”)
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    Most of the fungi we eat obtain their energy by one of two means: saprophytically, by decomposing dead vegetable matter, and mycorrhizally, by associating with the roots of living plants.
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    white button mushrooms, shiitakes, cremini, Portobellos, and oyster mushrooms
  • Smira Raohas quoted5 years ago
    Fungi, lacking chlorophyll, differ from plants in that they can’t manufacture food energy from the sun. Like animals, they feed on organic matter made by plants, or by plant eaters. Most of the fungi we eat obtain their energy by one of two means: saprophytically, by decomposing dead vegetable matter, and mycorrhizally, by associating with the roots of living plants
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