Growing Edge (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Michael Pollan has really been in the news lately. His best selling book, Botany of Desire, was made into a PBS television documentary and broadcast at the end of October. He has had several feature interviews in The New York Times. In the Nov.-Jan. 2010 issue of Organic Gardening magazine, he is interviewed by editor [...]
Public Opinion (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
As Michael Pollan points out in The New York Times, our industrial food system is now characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table. It has enabled an Australian to be able to go into a...
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Behind the bar at Tosca. [Photo: Flickr/noinput] · What's Michael Pollan Been up to Lately? [SE] · Oakland's Peerless Coffee Still a Hit [Chron] · Cookbooks: Mark Peel and Thomas Keller Both Do Homecooking [LAT] · Oakland Gets a...
Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Michael Pollan's been making some pretty big waves lately—in the media, at colleges, with farmers, and little tots. Time to check in on what he's been up to and what it all says about the state of green food today. [Photograph: Wikipedia] Drama at Two Universities In early October, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo downgraded a scheduled Pollan lecture because it received pressure...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: Ethicurean Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled " The Carnivore's Dilemma "--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst these voices is Michael Pollan,...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Unlike the architect whose house has a perpetually leaking roof, or the cobbler whose shoes need mending, Michael Pollan has a new garden that speaks of a professional who practices what he preaches. For the author and journalism professor - who has almost...
Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
[Photograph: Leslie Kelly] Darlene Barnes would like author Michael Pollan to walk a mile in her tiny kitchen clogs. "It's all well and good for Michael Pollan to tell people how they should eat, but it's another to try and make it happen in the real world," she said. My boss at Alpha Sigma Phi at the University of Washington was in a bit of a snit after a frustrating...
JerseySmarts.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... food supply that is based more on corn than on natural elements. Seriously, take a read of any of Michael Pollan’s books and you’ll understand how incredible this change has been and how it has effected us as a people. That’s why I joined the Food Democracy mailing list – so I could use whatever voice I have in this world to advocate on behalf of bringing our food system back to basics....
La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Last night I had the great privilege to see and hear two of the most influential and inspiring figures in the sustainable food movement in conversation. While Michael Pollan has become a household name through books like Omnivore's Dilemma, and most recently, films like Food Inc. and The Botany of Desire , he took the interviewer's seat and gave the stage to a man who has touched so many...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... the family and rule them via remote control. Game on. PG. 1 hour, 26 minutes. You are what you eat Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," team up in the documentary "Food, Inc." They give viewers a sober and unflattering look at corporate food production. PG. 1 hour, 34 minutes.
The Green Changemakers (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... launch a vibrant national conversation about the future of food and farming in America," says Michael Pollan, bestselling author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto and The Omnivore's Dilemma. "Now the Center for Ecoliteracy's invaluable teacher's guide will help to bring that conversation into the classroom." The 102-page guide provides questions and activities...
Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Could the Founding Fathers have envisioned a day when it was illegal for a man to milk his own cows and sell the milk to his neighbors? It probably never even crossed their minds. Author Joel Salatin, the “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer” who appeared in the documentary Food, Inc. and was profiled in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma,...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... of new organic farmers entering the marketplace, which he and others attribute to the writings of Michael Pollan, films like Food Inc., and the increased concern surrounding food safety issues in general. However, there are big speed bumps in the way of an organic farmer’s success. Read about challenges posed by GMO's, big ag and more> > ...
Fingertips (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... recommend The Ethical Gourmet by Jay Weinstein, In Defense of Food and Omnivore's Dilemma both by Michael Pollan, and the very first book I read on the politics of food back in the 1990s: Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe. tags: massage massagetherapy wellness massage therapy bodywork health
Click World News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... Each has fervent followers and critics. Genuine discourse has broken down: You're either with Michael Pollan or you're with Monsanto. But neither of these paradigms, standing alone, can fully meet our needs. Rather than voting for just one solution, we need a third way to solve the crisis. Let's take ideas from both sides, creating new, hybrid solutions that boost production, conserve...
