AtomicQuote

Michael Pollan Quote

He showed the words chocolate cake to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. Guilt was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: celebration.

Michael Pollan

He showed the words chocolate cake to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. Guilt was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: celebration.

Tags: chocolate, chocolate cake, connotations, food, french, guilt, politics, semantics, word association

Related Quotes

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

Daniela Pestova

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

Tags: fitness, chocolate, exercise, run

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Tags: love, valentinesday, chocolate, food, humor

It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.

Carol Anne Dobson

It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.

Tags: asteroids, chocolate, chocolate problems worry humor, contingency planning, coping strategies, doom, drollery, emergency preparation, humorous, humourous

Life without books, chocolate & coffee is just useless.

Nadun Lokuliyanage

Life without books, chocolate & coffee is just useless.

Tags: books, chocolate, coffee, life

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

Robert Orben

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

Tags: breakfast, cereal, chocolate, funny, humor, old, times

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Linda Grayson

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Tags: chocolate, friendship

I know you're a chocolate lover. I can always tell. I'm about to temper the chocolate. I have my own method; want to watch?Could I? Inside my head, a little voice was reminding me that I had to get ba...

Ruth Reichl

I know you're a chocolate lover. I can always tell. I'm about to temper the chocolate. I have my own method; want to watch?Could I? Inside my head, a little voice was reminding me that I had to get ba...

Tags: chocolate, chocolate lovers, flavors, fruits, kim wong, spices

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the ent...

Sarah Vowell

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the ent...

Tags: chocolate, coffee, history

When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern.

Adrianne Marcus

When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern.

Tags: chocolate, death

Having sex with a condom is like eating chocolate with the wrap on.

Ahmed Mostafa

Having sex with a condom is like eating chocolate with the wrap on.

Tags: chocolate, condom funny, condoms, no glove no love, sad truth, safe sex, sex, stds, take a chance, wrapped
About Michael Pollan

Michael Kevin Pollan (; born February 6, 1955) is an American author and journalist, who is currently Professor of the Practice of Non-Fiction and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where in 2020 he cofounded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program. Pollan is best known for his books that explore the socio-cultural impacts of food, such as The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma.