is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, winner of the James Beard Award, and The Omnivore's Dilemma, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Previous books include Second Nature, The Botany of Desire, and A Place of My Own, pictured here. Pollan appears in Food, Inc. a documentary now in theaters, and The Botany of Desire, which will be broadcast on public television on October 28, 2009. Pollan is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley.