The Year In Ideas: A to Z; Genetic Pollution
…and over again, so that its impact on the environment would increase with time rather than diminish. Now you’re talking about a problem with, quite literally, a life of its…
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Big Food vs. Big Insurance
…billion to treat obesity, $116 billion to treat diabetes, and hundreds of billions more to treat cardiovascular disease and the many types of cancer that have been linked to the…
Living at the Office
…the kids who surely stand to benefit: One of the great advantages of working at home is the added time with one’s family it affords, once you realize how much…
Michael Pollan on psychedelia: ‘Everything I once was had been liquefied’
The writer Michael Pollan is best known for his advice, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” His bestselling books (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Cooked) have served up large helpings of…
‘Cooked’: Michael Pollan gets to the heart and soul of cooking
…the larger arena of culture, history and compulsion. The next step up the great chain of being brought him to food production, specifically the ecological and physiological consequences of modern…
In Defense of Food on PBS
The PBS documentary In Defense of Food takes viewers on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths…
Ripeness is All: The Fruit Bowl
…in reference to a very different fruit, “There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.” In the case of a peach,…
Mindful eating with Oprah
Oprah speaks with bestselling author Michael Pollan about our evolving relationship with food, what it means to eat with a fuller consciousness and how having a heightened awareness of the…
Big Food
Michael Pollan thinks Wall Street has way too much influence over what we eat. Read more here….
Caffeine: How coffee and tea created the modern world
…that what we eat affects how we live. In Caffeine: How coffee and tea created the modern world, Pollan calls caffeine “the most-used drug in the world”—one we give our…