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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
By Tom Philpott Later this week, I'll be reporting from the Organic Summit in Boulder. Judging from the attendees list on the homepage , the summit brings together the shakers and movers behind what Michael Pollan has called "industrial organic" -- the large-scale producers and processors that stock the shelves at Whole Foods and the organic sections at Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc. But the...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Neatly encapsulating the prevailing foodie conventional wisdom, science-fearing New York Times contributor Michael Pollan has famously advised America to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." He...
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Sometimes a sauce is more than, well, just a sauce. Discovered for the first time -- on the menu of a restaurant, amid the pages of a cookbook -- it looks ordinary enough. But in one bite, such a sauce transforms the dish, then the meal, then the diner. If you think I'm overstating -- food is not always alchemy; sometimes, as Michael Pollan has famously observed, it's not even food --...
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Dark Party Review (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
The True Cost of Eating Your Lunch Journalist Michael Pollan has written what appears on the surface to be a boring book. He decides to eat four meals and explore the history and consequences of each. He chooses an industrial agricultural meal (fast food), a large-scale organic meal, locally raised farm meal and finally he hunts and gathers his last meal. By capturing the social,
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Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Via Ezra , Michael Pollan has a good example of the problems that Matt discusses here . Evidently, it would be good if subsidies to wealthy agricultural conglomerates could just be eliminated (or severely curtailed.) But the structure of American institutions and policy path dependencies make simply eliminating these kind of subsidies entirely politically impossible. So the better course...
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Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
From: What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food TV dinners were launched at a time when only a small percentage of Americans actually owned TVs. Thus, the meals, writes Raj Patel, "were what people ate while they dreamed of affording one." In the American dream, we imagine a bucolic Midwest, a place of bounty, yet the reality is that the breadbasket of America is rife with poverty...
