Reviews
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Written with Pollan’s customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots.
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“In Defense of Food” is Pollan’s answer, the needle through which we must squeeze our fatted high-fructose selves to find salvation.
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In this slim, remarkable volume, Pollan builds a convincing case not only against that steak dinner but against the entire Western diet.
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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.”
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This is an important book, short but pithy, and, like the word “food,” not simple at all.
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A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential.
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If you read one book about food this year, it should be Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.
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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.
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His master stroke is a ringing declaration of nutritional independence: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
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He’s way too polite to tell us what to eat. Instead, he uses his familiar brand of carefully researched, common-sense journalism to persuade, providing guidelines and convincing arguments.
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Pollan’s advice is sensible and even inspiring.
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A writer of great subtlety, Pollan doesn’t preach to the choir; in fact, rarely does he preach at all, preferring to let the facts speak for themselves.