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In Defense of Food
“Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.” As manifestos go, it’s hardly “Workers of the world unite!” But for Michael Pollan, that little piece of grandmotherly wisdom is a long overdue counter-revolutionary rallying cry for reclaiming how we eat. In his last book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan looked at how we procure and prepare
Author Michael Pollan goes ‘In Defense of Food’
Michael Pollan came to his calling by accident. Tall and lanky, a student of the essayists Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, he thought he would end up an English professor. But a garden intervened. And a rather unfortunate incident involving a woodchuck, cabbage seedlings and a gallon of gasoline. More on that later.
The New American Meal: A Panel Discussion with Mollie Katzen, Michael Pollan, and Ann Vileisis
“You are what you eat,” we’re so often told. And that is certainly true, but if you care to pursue that line of reasoning, you’ll start looking more closely at the individual components of your meals and their ingredients. Michael Pollan decided to follow this line, and the result was the best-selling and utterly compelling
You Are What You Eat (And You Are in Serious Trouble)
This is an important book, short but pithy, and, like the word "food," not simple at all. 
Food Fight
BROOKE GLADSTONE: For decades, the consumption of news has complicated our consumption of – food. Nowadays, what we buy to eat is determined by shifting health studies. Carbs are good for you. No, they’re bad. Fats make you fat. No, they don’t. And food labels only increase our confusion. Michael Pollan, journalist and professor of
Author Comes to Natural Food’s ‘Defense’
Author Michael Pollan discusses his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. He boils his philosophy of nutrition down to seven words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Pollan suggests that people can improve their health by following relatively simple rules, such as: “Don’t eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
If you read one book about food this year, it should be Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
Obsessed With Nutrition? That’s An Eating Disorder
A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential.
A Thoughtful, Simple Menu
The book is short and compact; and, although there's still good bit of reporting, especially about the history of nutrition science, the book seems designed to be what it says it is: a manifesto a declaration of principles that you carry around and use to remind yourself of certain ideas or to start arguments.
‘In Defense of Food’ Author Offers Advice for Health
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s the advice journalist and author Michael Pollan offers in his new book, In Defense of Food. “That’s it. That is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy,” Pollan tells Steve Inskeep.