Isak (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Michael Pollan's most recent investigative journalism wonder has got me bandying the word "nutritionism" about. I mean--he means--to describe a cultural ideology that places value on nutrients rather than food itself. That is,...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
You've read my lengthy American Conservative interview with Michael Pollan, yes? As I've said here before, the great Pollan was surprised to learn that there are conservatives who are right there with him (and he admits to being a traditionalist...
FitSugar (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
I have a new food bible. It is not written by a chef, a nutritionist or a dietitian, but a journalist. The irony of dispensing nutritional advice as a journalist is not lost on the author of In Defense of Food ($21), Michael Pollan. He actively wonders throughout this great little book on the circumstances that led food, the sustenance of life, to become so vulnerable that it needed...
FOOD ON THE FOOD (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
It feels odd and somewhat wrong to be talking about surplus corn when half the state of Iowa was recently underwater . But the fact is that the whole first section of this book was rooted in surplus corn, and so I’m afraid I’m constrained by the facts that were on the ground when the book was written. Luckily, though, Michael Pollan is forward-thinking, and the message in this particular...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Michael Pollan talks about biofuels and the food crisis, the glories of grass-fed beef, and how environmentalists should think about sustainability.
Philip Greenspun's Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few insights from Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan... Virtually everything that we Americans eat is a form of corn. Cows, chicken, farmed fish, and pigs are fed from corn, resulting in meat, eggs, and milk from corn. Most of the ingredients in processed food come from corn, including the lecithin, ...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
My feature-length Q&A with Michael Pollan is now up on The American Conservative's website. I think y'all will really like it. Hope so. Here's an excerpt: POLLAN: ...I always saw myself as being to the Left of center, although whenever...
The Ethicurean (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Slow Food Nation , the three-day festival that’s been hyped as the “ Woodstock of the food movement ” and the “ first continental culinary congress ,” has begun and is full swing. It encompasses a thriving Victory Garden in front of San Francisco’s City Hall (pictured); a Food for Thought lecture series with speakers such as Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Alice Waters, Eric Schlosser,...
Eater (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eater SF has the first preview shots of mega-foodie Slow Food Nation event being held in San Francisco this weekend. They'll be all over the event: The food pavilions with artisanal foodstuffs galore (breads, cheeses, pizza, ice cream, pickles and so on), the marketplace, the forums ( Alice Waters, Michael Pollan , Eric Schlosser, Carlo Petrini), the demos. We expect a lot of chef sightings...
Rocking Grass (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s An Eater’s Manifesto, and it’s brilliant stuff. He takes a basic rule: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants“, and expands on it to explain why these things need saying, before breaking down each of those to come up with a list of applicable rules that can be followed fairly [...]
Rocking Grass (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Yesterday, I posted about Michael Pollan’s rules from In Defense of Food. Today, I poked around the Tesco in Baggot Street, picking up things I like to eat and looking at the ingredients. This one is going to be more difficult than I thought, at least if you apply it strictly. I looked at six different [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
By Julian, Liam Up From Nutrition MICHAEL POLLAN. In Defense of Food. PENGUIN. 2.56 PAGES. $2.1.95 By LIAM JULIAN I HAD THE GOOD fortune, upon first moving to Washington D.C.
in praise of sardines (Free subscription) | yesterday
starts tomorrow!That's right, the nation's largest ever gathering of food lovers will be taking place right here in San Francisco. My only regret is that won't be open in time to play host. On the plus side, I'll be able to join in the revelry.I've signed up for two at the Herbst Theater on Friday ("Re-Localizing Food," featuring Michael Pollan and Dan Barber, and "A New, Fair Food System,"...
Now Norma Knits (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
But just when I was smugly basking in the glow of being The Most Amazing and Intelligent Human Being on Earth, "infarct" started translating "infarmer's market." I made "FARKT" a brief form for "farmer's market" during the Michael Pollan talk. This is exactly why I hate brief forms -- they lurk in there in that steno dictionary, forgotten, until they come out at the most inopportune moments....
green LA girl (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
As Michael Pollan predicted, irradiated spinach is in vogue — at least with the FDA. Some of the fallout, below: > > People aren’t too psyched ’bout nuked spinach, found out BlogHer’s Catherine Morgan in her roundup of women bloggers writing on the topic. The posts she links to outlines some of the main reasons many [...]
