In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
 

In Defense of Food

by Michael Pollan

Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in In Defense of Food is a series of wonderfully clear... (read more)

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bfeld
  • Rated 5 stars

I read this one on a trip last week to Raleigh Durham (started on the flight out; finished on the flight back). As I ate my Balance Bar on the plane, I realized that everything that Michael Pollan was saying rang gigantic bells in my head. The first half of the book describes the devolution of "food" from "food" to "nutrients" and has a scathing analysis of how the food industry and our government have completely screwed the American diet. The second half of the book tells you what you can...

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Elaine K
  • Rated 2 stars

I heard MIchael Pollen talk about this book on NPR and couldn't wait to read it, but I found it disappointingly dull. His up-front summary - eat food, not too much, mostly plants - is all you need to know. The book presents lots of science in an effort to convince the reader that Americans are too concerned with what scientists have to say. It's confusing at best.

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  • Matt Bayly

    matt bayly said:

    Somewhat a rehash of The Omnivore's Dilemma, except this book has the word "percent" on nearly every page. The great storytelling is gone, and in its place is a fairly dry discussion of trends in nutritionism and why you should ignore most of them. Still interesting in places but overall a very fast skim if you've already read the Dilemma. The takeaway is: eat a wide variety of whole foods, preferably those you have grown &/or cooked yourself.

    posted Monday, June 23 2008
  • medo z

    medo z said:

    i love these kinds of books...all people have the right to know what is going on on the other side of the earth,BEYOND THEIR REACH!

    posted Friday, May 16 2008
  • medo z

    medo z said:

    hi

    posted Friday, May 16 2008
  • e

    e said:

    Is this an ESL forum??

    posted Thursday, May 1 2008
  • peter e

    peter e said:

    don't have anything to say

    posted Thursday, March 20 2008
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