The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
What do kids need to know about food? Michael Pollan , food activist and author, explains the personal and global health implications of food choices to a younger audience in his new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat .
JerseySmarts.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Sometimes I buy a a book and it takes me forever to read the thing. Not because it’s a bad book, but rather because I sometimes just don’t have the time to sit down and read! That’s what happened to me with The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael [...]
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,...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Michael Pollan , food activist and author, explains the personal and global health implications of food choices to a younger audience in his new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat .
ABC News (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Read an excerpt from Michael Pollan's new book.
Fanatic Cook (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... Wendell Berry (Writer): "Eating is an agricultural act." Michael Pollan (Author "Omnivore's Dilemma"): "Eating is a political act." Alice Waters (Restaurateur): "Eating is a political act." See my previous post for a link to McWilliams article which addressed this issue. ________ I believe the illustration is by Patrick McFarlin , an accompaniment...
Meat & Seafood Good For The Grill (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Rabbit is a great tasting meat. For people who let factories raise their meat standing in their own dried pooh being pumped with antibiotics, they may fine a food that our ancestors ate to be gross or inhumane. These people would learn a lot by reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma". The sausages were shipped in a styrofoam cooler with cooling packets of "ice". They made...
FitSugar (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... . Food, Inc. : The underbelly 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.
A Reader's Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... group. Melissa also belongs to an adult book club. For their November meeting they discussed The Omnivore's Dilemma and enjoyed a Thanksgiving Pot Luck. YaUMMMM! Melissa shares a recipe she discovered through Amy's Fall Recipe Exchange for Pumpkin Dump Cake. It sounds so delicious. A now Melissa answers a few of my questions about her and her state. 1. Start by telling us a little...
Egregious Blunders, et cetera. (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I've been having my own version of a monthly period for a few days and have had no interest in blogging, but maybe it will pass soon...... I finished The Omnivore's Dilemma AND watched Food, Inc. in the last two days. If you have any concern whatsoever about what you are eating and where it comes from; or if you have children and are interested in their health, both now and in the future;...
cookiesinheaven (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... 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, and his latest, Everything...
Deceiver (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... 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 see, people were freakishly...
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...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
This post in Treehugger responds to a N.Y. Times op-ed by Nicolette Hahn Niman (of Niman Ranch fame) in favor of 'enlightened meat eating'. Enjoy this, um, food for thought: 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...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
You'd expect nothing less in the garden of Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto; The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ; and The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Pollan and his wife hired local landscape designer Bernardo Lopez...
