In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan's last book , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but...
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Michael Pollan's last book , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143114963 (0143114964)
ASIN: 143114964
Publish date: April 28th 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Science,
Environment,
Health,
Cooking,
Nutrition,
Foodie,
Food Writing
"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 ...
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