Well (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Corky Pollan, mother of the food writer Michael Pollan, offers a favorite family Thanksgiving recipe that combines pears and turnips for a not-too-sweet holiday side dish.
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Michael Pollan Talks About the Linkages Between Energy, Health Care and Food The other day, I talked about the media’s overall failure to adequately educate the American public in the linkages between solving our crises in climate disruption, energy security, and health insurance costs. In this short Grist interview, Michael Pollan talks about the linkages between...
Signal vs. Noise (Free subscription) | yesterday
... out of context. Everything is interwoven. The soul of a carrot A related example (popularized by Michael Pollan): the soul of a carrot . Scientists keep trying to isolate the part of a carrot that makes it healthy. They have identified 15 carotenes in the carrot, yet carotene pills do not replicate the health benefits of munching on actual carrots. Pollan explains why the reductive...
Veggie Revolution (Free subscription) | yesterday
... letting all of them speak for themselves. Foer quoted significant passages from the writings of Michael Pollan and Gail Eisnitz, and described the fascinating work of Temple Grandin. I thought he did a great job of getting at the essence of each person's perspective, and identifying contrasts. Since I write and blog about diet and livestock myself, I can't say I was surprised at anything...
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In his most recent best-selling book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto,” journalist Michael Pollan argues that nutritionism — a nutrient-by-nutrient approach to eating — has harmed our health and our environment. Yes, America produces a cornucopia of food, but the bulk of it turns out to be overly processed, high in calories and loaded with fat and sodium....
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This month brings the publication of Eating Animals—a vegetarian's memoir and manifesto, a Peter Singer sort of guide to a Michael Pollan world, the third book by novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. In support of it, the author and his publisher have concocted a short Web video. When I watched it over dinner last night, it put me off my lamb shoulder chop (medium rare) only in its unpalatable...
FitSugar (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... of the food industry is exposed in this documentary narrated by Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation . Arguing for sustainable food production, the film's antagonist is not the farmer or the carnivore but multinational corporation Monsanto. Purchase ($14) the 94-minute film or Netflix it.
cookiesinheaven (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... is one of the world’s leading advocates of farming and food relocalization. Featured in Michael Pollan’s book, Omnivore’s Dilemma, and in the films FRESH and FOOD, Inc., Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms exemplify successful grass farming and the farming and food relocalization movement. Joel is the author of six books including Family Friendly Farming, Salad Bar Beef,...
varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
In a bizarre misinterpretation of Michael Pollan’s advocacy of slow food, the Obama administration has decided to pursue slow infrastructure. No, this doesn’t mean funding more freeways in Los Angeles, I’m kidding about the Pollan reference, it does mean stalling on infrastructure yet again because it isn’t politically expedient and doesn’t benefit...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
While the Farm Bureau gets a little free press for its pro-Big-Ag , anti-Michael-Pollan propaganda, the Farmers Union provides a forum Wednesday for all sides to discuss climate change legislation. Tomorrow night, Wednesday, November 18, 7 p.m., speakers and interested citizens will gather on the SDSU campus in Rotunda D to talk about what we need to do about clean energy and American...
Deceiver (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... than just “This is tasty, and that’s why I do it.” He posits that consideration, as promoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma , which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don’t believe in rape, but if it’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it ). You...
Volunteer Boston: Get On Your Feet (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
"Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost," - Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma Let's follow in the footsteps of our forefathers this season (minus the murderous killing spree) and...
dinner with Julie (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
So obviously it was a sign. I picked up some chard. However. Have I mentioned the entertainment tax I paid last week? It cost me a full 8 pounds. Too much cheese, bread, butter, meat, desserts doused in whipped cream. Repeat. Have you ever heard Michael Pollan’s advice to “eat food, not too much, mostly plants”? In recent weeks (between Jasper, Toronto, Vancouver, Vegas and the Okanagan-yikes!)...
