Media Outlets
-
With his lucid style and innovative research, Pollan deserves his reputation as one of the most respectable voices in the modern debate about food.
-
“In Defense of Food” is Pollan’s answer, the needle through which we must squeeze our fatted high-fructose selves to find salvation.
-
Written with Pollan’s customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots.
-
In this slim, remarkable volume, Pollan builds a convincing case not only against that steak dinner but against the entire Western diet.
-
Sure, I’m on a food binge. But not what is usually meant when one hears the words “food” and “binge” put together. Readers can’t but help having noticed the cookbooks creeping into The Rolling Shelves, and the increasing number of food-related books that have come my way. A couple of weeks ago, I ran the…
-
What should I eat for dinner tonight? Here is Pollan’s brilliant, succinct and nuanced answer to this question: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
-
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.…
-
“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…
-
This is an important book, short but pithy, and, like the word “food,” not simple at all.
-
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…
-
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.
-
A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential.