"Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much" (p. 1*). This is Michael Pollan's philosophy of food and eating. In the opening chapter of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto and his other works, Pollan realizes that it's more than a little absurd that he writes entire books when his argument can be su...
Books like this make me afraid to eat. Then they make me mad at the way I've been eating. Finally, they make me a better eater. At the start, the idea seems simple: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." When I read that I thought, okay I can stop reading. I know that already, so I've got this shi...
Yes this is a lightweight book, yes it is an introduction but it isn't written in obscure science speak, it didn't bombard me with statistics, instead it argues that by reducing the diversity of our foodstuffs we're asking for trouble. Having recently discovered a mutual hate agreement with Gluten ...
This is an illuminating read. Pollan's mantra, printed right on the cover, is simple: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Well of course you should eat food! Duh. How hard can that be? Turns out the evolution of the American food industry has pushed a lot of things that are anything but food into...
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."These cautiously conservative recommendations from this book by Michael Pollan I'm sure are good advice. Humans are descended from a long line of omnivores who found the most readily available food to be plants. Anything sweet such as ripe fruit was more rare ...
Eat food. Not much. Mostly plants. A fairly simple mantra, and one that shouldn't need a whole book written about it. Unfortunately, today there is the need to re-establish traditional and wholesome eating, both in a health and a social sense. Pollan's book is an enjoyable read, and though it hasn't...
I picked this up at the airport at at time when I started to become committed to eating healthier and learning more about how food production affects the environment and public health. I really hadn't thought much about food in this sens before and this book helped me to realize everyone should thi...
This short 200pg essay is Pollan's attempt to deconstruct the Western Diet and write down the last 100yrs of food science as a failure to our diet. I enjoy Pollan's writing style and mostly agree with the message. This book contained more of an agenda than the Omnivore's Dilemma, albeit still an imp...
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