In Defense of Food
My opinion will change five or six times as I continue to read the book, but so far I am liking what I’m reading in Michael Pollan’s latest release, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. The bit that I like so much is his differentiation of food from food-like substances. Yogurt? Food. Go-gurt? Food-like. Apple? Food. Apple Jacks cereal? Food-like. The distilled message (as printed on the cover): Eat food. Not too much. Mostly vegetables. Brilliant!
In Defense of Food is on sale at Powell’s Books.
Hear and Read the rundown on the book according to NPR’s Talk of the Nation.
And if you’re interested in this title, I also recommend the following:
- The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, Peter Singer and Jim Mason
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
- Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm, David Mas Masumoto
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Joel Schlosser
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