This is part three of a three post series summarizing Michael Pollan’s advice from his excellent book, In Defense of Food. The conclusions he reaches are: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These are Pollan’s overarching guidelines for buying and eating food. But, since that’s not much to go on, our posts will deal [...]
This is part two of a three post series summarizing Michael Pollan’s advice from his excellent book, In Defense of Food. The conclusions he reaches are: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These are Pollan’s overarching guidelines for buying and eating food. But, since that’s not much to go on, our posts will deal with each [...]
This is part one of a three post series summarizing Michael Pollan’s advice from his excellent book, In Defense of Food. The conclusions he reaches are: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These are Pollan’s overarching guidelines for buying and eating food. But, since that’s not much to go on, our posts will deal [...]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan, The Penguin Press, New York, 2006
Here Pollan takes the reader through the various paths by which our food reaches our tables. He examines the positive and negative aspects of industrial and organic agriculture, as well as hunting and gathering one’s own food. This book [...]
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan, The Penguin Press, New York, 2008
In this book, Michael Pollan outlines the pitfalls of nutritionism and why going back to the basics of eating “real” food is better for health. Pollan describes the history of nutritionism and how a reductionist approach to food has likely caused many of the health [...]