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Michael Pollan visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, "In Defense of Food." This talk took place on March 4, 2...
Sort by Boing Boing (Free subscription) - 05/06/2008
Avi sez, "Michael Pollan gives his most practical lecture yet @ Google. Pollan's 12 heuristics have been most helpful during my year shopping for veggies at Berkley Bowl:) I grew up buying fresh produce at atmospheric places like this in Mumbai and do fervently hope that vivacious local markets trump impersonal food-processing corporations." Pollan's In Defense of Food is a fascinating treatise on...
Sort by Lifehacker (Free subscription) - 05/11/2008
Author of In Defense of Food Michael Pollan explained his "eater's manifesto" at Google last month. Watch the video to hear Pollan discuss his seven word philosopy ("Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.")—or download the hour-long clip it to your iPod to watch later. Michael Pollan Speaks In Defense Of Food [Building a Better Geek]
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PSFK fave author Michael Pollan brings his book In In Defense Of Food to life in this lecture he gave to Google staff. It covers his rant against nutrionism and the problem it has created for the American diet.
Sort by Eater (Free subscription) - 04/24/2008
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Sort by Jeremy Zawodny Blog (Free subscription) - 05/14/2008
I've been a fan of Michael Pollan's work for some time now, so I was quite happy to run across a video of a recent talk he gave at Google in which he discusses the current understanding of food and nutrition as well as what's wrong with our "system" today. Even if his name doesn't ring a bell, you may have heard of some of his books: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto , The Omnivore's Dilemma:...
Sort by The Sietch Blog (Free subscription) - 05/06/2008
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Sort by CalorieLab Calorie Counter News (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
Michael Pollan visits Google to tell workers there what to eat. He says they could do a lot worse than staying in the building and eating all the food there.
Sort by Applied Abstractions (Free subscription) - 05/09/2008
Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals , 2006 Michael Pollan is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto , where he basically took on the flood of diet advice and replaced it with "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." In this book, he discusses the problem of what to eat today, which is not something most species wonder about, either because food is...
Sort by Accidental Hedonist (Free subscription) - 05/07/2008
(Promoted from the Diaries - K) If you, like me, found yourself stuck partway through Omnivore's Dilemma, here is Michael Pollan at Google -- speaking on food versus nutrition.
Sort by Starling Fitness (Free subscription) - 05/16/2008
What should you eat? What is healthy? Which foods will help you live longer? It's obvious that we were meant to eat both meat and vegetables. We are omnivores, after all. What should an omnivore eat? The science of it all is a little sketchy and the way we look at food (Nutritionism) can make the [...]
