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Michael Pollan is the author of 
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto , winner of the James Beard Award, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new book Food Rules will be available in January. A young readers version The Omnivore's Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat is now available. Pollan is also the author of The
Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001); A
Place of My Own (1997);
and Second
Nature (1991). In 2009 Pollan appeared in the documentary Food, Inc. and the PBS documentary The Botany of Desire. A contributing writer to the New
York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards,
including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and
the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism.
Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s
Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental
Journalism at UC Berkeley. His articles have been anthologized in Best
American Science Writing (2004); Best American
Essays (1990 and 2003)
and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. Newsweek named Pollan one of the top ten new thought leaders of the decade. He lives in the Bay Area
with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer, and their son, Isaac. To
contact him, email: inquiries at michaelpollan.com.High Resolution Image #1 (photo credit: Ken Light)
High Resolution Image #2 (photo credit: Alia Malley)
| Reviews |
| February 2, 2010 Rules Worth Following, for Everyone's Sake The New York Times |
| March 20, 2008 A New Way to Think About Eating The New York Review of Books |
| February 16, 2008 A Little of What you Fancy... The Guardian (UK) |
| February 9, 2008 Green Giant The Financial Times (UK) |
| February 8, 2008 What's Eating at Michael Pollan? The Seattle Times |
| February 8, 2008 Book Review: In Defense of Food The Oregonian |
| January 27, 2008 What's for Dinner? Washington Post |
| January 20, 2008 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Pittsburg Post-Gazette |
| January 5, 2008 You Are What You Eat (And You Are in Serious Trouble) New York Post |
| January 3, 2008 Obsessed With Nutrition? That's An Eating Disorder The New York Times |
| January 3, 2008 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Portland Mercury |
| January 3, 2008 A Thoughtful, Simple Menu Hartford Courant |
| December 31, 2007 The Holy Church of Food Slate |
| December 30, 2007 In Defense of Food Los Angeles Times |
| December 30, 2007 Just eat what your great-grandma ate San Francisco Chronicle |
| November 26, 2007 In Defense of Food Publisher's Weekly |
| June 28, 2007 We're Living on Corn! New York Review of Books |
| August 20, 2006 The Omnivore's Dilemma Tikkun |
| July 24, 2006 Two Great Books to Chew On Newsweek |
| June 28, 2006 The Anxiety of Eating The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.) |
| June 27, 2006 Dining Dilemmas: How Shall We Then Eat? Christianity Today |
| May 25, 2006 You Are What You Read Salt Lake City Weekly |
| May 15, 2006 Paradise Sold: What are you buying when you buy organic? The New Yorker |
| May 14, 2006 Children of the Corn Toronto Star |
| May 8, 2006 We Are What We (Blindly) Eat Business Weekly |
| April 30, 2006 Food for thought: What we eat can be not only nourishing, but edifying as well St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| April 30, 2006 Up and Down the Food Chain Newsday |
| April 29, 2006 Up and Down the Food Chain The Globe and Mail |
| April 23, 2006 Deconstructing Dinner The New York Times Book Review |
| April 19, 2006 The Omnivore's Dilemma Seattle Weekly |
| April 16, 2006 What we eat, why, and where it really comes from The Chicago Tribune |
| April 14, 2006 A long, strange trip down the food chain The Seattle Times |
| April 14, 2006 Eating Blind The Wall Street Journal |
| April 13, 2006 Let's Make a Meal Grist Magazine |
| April 9, 2006 You Are What You Eat The Washington Post |
| April 9, 2006 Anatomy of a Meal San Francisco Chronicle |
| April 9, 2006 The Omnivore's Dilemma The Los Angeles Times |
| March 29, 2006 Shooting a Pig San Francisco Bay Guardian |
| March 26, 2006 Seconds, Anyone? TIME |
| February 20, 2006 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Publisher's Weekly |
| April 30, 2001 Botany of Desire Reviews from various publications |
| April 30, 1997 A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder Reviews from various publications |
| April 30, 1991 Second Nature: A Gardener's Education Reviews from various publications |
| Interviews |
| February 1, 2010 10 Questions for Michael Pollan Time Magazine |
| March 17, 2008 Michael Pollan Predicts a Food Culture Revolution Earth & Sky radio show (PART I) |
| March 16, 2008 Is Eating Scientifically Good For You? Earth & Sky radio show (PART II) |
| February 22, 2008 Lancaster Farming Speaks With Michael Pollan Lancaster Farming |
| February 22, 2008 Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths Alternet.org |
| January 27, 2008 Interview with Michael Pollan The Agony Column |
| January 9, 2008 In Defense of Food CBC Radio: The Current |
| January 7, 2008 The New American Meal: A Panel Discussion with Mollie Katzen, Michael Pollan, and Ann Vileisis The Agony Column |
| January 4, 2008 Michael Pollan discusses his new book, In Defense of Food Science Friday with Ira Flatow (NPR) |
| January 4, 2008 Food Fight On the Media (NPR) |
| January 1, 2008 'In Defense of Food' Author Offers Advice for Health Morning Edition (NPR) |
| October 12, 2007 Table Talk: A Conversation with Michael Pollan Grist.org |
| April 1, 2007 Michael Pollan: The Believer Interview The Believer |
| November 1, 2006 It's All Storytelling: An Interview with Michael Pollan Writing on the Edge |
| September 1, 2006 Engaging with the Omnivore Satya Magazine |
| June 28, 2006 Q&A with Michael Pollan: Think Global, Eat Local The Washington Post |
| June 15, 2006 The Colbert Report interview Comedy Central |
| May 31, 2006 Eat the Press Grist Magazine |
| May 25, 2006 Third Degree Interview: Michael Pollan LA City Beat |
| April 21, 2006 Michael Pollan's Food for Thought On Point Radio with Tom Ashbrook (NPR) |
| April 19, 2006 Acclaimed author takes an enlightening trip through our food chain The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
| April 19, 2006 Michael Pollan, "Food Detective" The Beyond Organic Show |
| April 14, 2006 Michael Pollan on The Omnivore's Dilemma Science Friday with Ira Flatow (NPR) |
| April 11, 2006 Michael Pollan: The Truthdig Interview Truthdig.com |
| April 11, 2006 Dinner: An Author Considers the Source Fresh Air with Terry Gross (NPR) |
| April 9, 2006 A consuming interest: Pollan puts his mouth where his research is San Francisco Chronicle |
| April 8, 2006 We Are What We Eat Salon.com |
| October 17, 2004 Michael Pollan discusses our national food anxiety Weekend Edition with Linda Wertheimer (NPR) |
| January 4, 2004 Factory Farming Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan (NPR) |
| January 4, 2004 Q & A: A Conversation with Michael Pollan California Monthly |
| November 27, 2003 Overabundance of corn and its effect on the economy Day to Day with Mike Pesca (NPR) |
| March 4, 2002 Writers on Gardening Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan (NPR) |
| February 8, 2002 My Summer in a Garden Morning Edition with Ketzel Levine (NPR) |
| July 27, 2001 Michael Pollan discusses his new book, The Botany of Desire Science Friday with Ira Flatow (NPR) |
| June 29, 2001 Botany of Desire The NewsHour with Jim Leher |
| June 5, 2001 Author Michael Pollan Talks About the History of the Apple Morning Edition with Ketzel Levine (NPR) |
| June 4, 2001 Evolution of plants as explained in Michael Pollan's new book, Botany of Desire Morning Edition with Ketzel Levine (NPR) |
| April 19, 1997 NPR Workhut All Things Considered with Daniel Zwerdling (NPR) |
| Profiles |
| January 8, 2008 Author Michael Pollan goes 'In Defense of Food' USA Today |
| June 1, 2007 New Grub Street Columbia Journalism Review |
| August 16, 2006 Voting With Their Forks The Los Angeles Times |
| August 1, 2006 Taking a Bite out of 'Organics' The Los Angeles Times |
| July 15, 2006 A Tussle, Of Sorts, Over Organics The New York Times |
| May 7, 2006 How Michael Pollan Ruined My Life: Thinking about where our food is coming from San Francisco Chronicle |
| March 15, 2006 Down to a Science San Francisco Chronicle |
| September 30, 2004 The Cheapest Calories Make You the Fattest: A food-chain journalist looks for stories in our meals Sierra Magazine |
| May 2, 2004 The High Price of Cheap Food Mealpolitik over lunch with Michael Pollan San Francisco Chronicle Magazine |