Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma
The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very ...

Review: “The Omnivore's Dilemma” by Michael Pollan « A Wee Blether
Rare is the book that educates, enthralls, convicts, and changes the reader as does The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan [The Penguin Press, 2006, 450 pp.] Put simply: it's a darn good book. ...

Petition to recommend Michael Pollan for Agriculture Secretary ...
It has been suggested (and previously) that Michael Pollan, author of Second Nature , The Omnivore's Dilemma , might make a good Secretary of Agriculture. This would be a dramatic departure for an office that has a decades-long history ...

Michael Pollan's 12 Commandments for Eating « Mr. Hartan's Science ...
Michael Pollan has written a new book, In Defense of Food (2008, Penguin Press), in which he is critical of not only the way we eat, but also the way we are told to eat. He calls it nutritionism.”It's a way of thinking,” he tells the ...

Michael Pollan's Twelve Commandments for Serious Eaters: Can You ...
Here they are, Michael Pollan's Twelve Commandments for Serious Eaters, from his new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. As Jamie Forrest noted yesterday, a few food pundits are taking him to task for a number of them....

MICHAEL POLLAN FOR SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE! (WENDELL BERRY SENIOR ...
To this end, may I formally recommend that Mr. Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at University of California, Berkley, be appointed to Secretary of Agriculture. And seeing that we're on the right track with this formal ...

Michael Pollan for Secretary of Agriculture : Eat. Drink. Better.
Michael Pollan is a fabulous writer and academic. However, I would suggest we nominate a man with decades of experience farming, writing and speaking about agriculture and rural America. I would nominate Wendell Berry, author of “The ...

Michael Pollan Interview
Michael Pollan has got people talking. His recent books, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, have captured the public imagination, setting off countless coffee shop ...

Obama Cites Michael Pollan's Sun-Food Agenda : TreeHugger
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall In a recent National Public Radio interview, Michael Pollan talks about how he was approached by a Democratic party staffer about his New York Times article, Farmer in Chief. The article is an open letter to.

heeb'n'vegan: Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and In ...
I just finished Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) and In Defense of Food (2008). "Rebbe Pollan" "gets his fair share of love" on The Jew & The Carrot, and because of that blog and other recommendations, I should've read ...