the irresistible fleet of bicycles (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
making your own food. Instead of just watching other people make the food on television. We think probably we should all learn how to make other things as well. Such as buttons Or OUR future. We’ll have to learn to make that as well. Posted in relevant youtube Tagged: Michael Pollan
I Hate The New Yorker (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the history of the (African-American, Latina, white, immigrant) working class. Bite me, Michael Pollan. Etc. And a big working-class, feminist thank you to Gail Collins and to Ariel Levy, who reviewed Collins' book in the Nov 19 New Yorker!! Levy quotes Collins, “In reality, however, by 1960 there were as many women working as there had been at the peak of World War II, and the vast...
Daniel Lubetzky (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
These are my favorite responses to Michael Pollan’s NYTimes blog request for readers’ rules about eating: From my Romanian grandmother: “Breakfast, you should eat alone. Lunch, you should share with a friend. Dinner, give to your enemy.” - Irina A. Dumitrescu “Never eat something that’s pretending to be something else…no textured vegetable [...]
Green Fertility (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
If you've been watching great documentaries like Food Inc., or reading any Michael Pollan, you already know how disgusting factory farming is (the animals live in their own poop, pumped full of antibiotics so they won't DIE), so it 's no surprise all this gloop makes it to the grocery store. We buy our eggs fresh, unwashed (sometimes with feathers stuck to them) and I do my old Korean/Rocky...
Fanatic Cook (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... are critical." 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...
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Iraq inquiry sheds light on 'drum beat' to war A long-awaited inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war got underway in London this week. The DW-WORLD Article http://newsletter.dw-world.de/ re?l=ew2p4rI44va89pI1 drumbeat n. The sound produced by beating a drum. Vehement, persistent advocacy of a cause: "the drumbeat of criticism of the news media from the right" (Michael Pollan)....
Celebrity Baby Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Actor Michael J. Fox and his wife Tracy Pollan pose with three of their children — twin daughters Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances, 14, and son Sam Michael, 20 – at the “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s” benefit, held last Saturday evening in Manhattan. Michael and Tracy are also parents to [...]
[FashionRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Actor Michael J. Fox and his wife Tracy Pollan pose with three of their children twin daughters Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances , 14, and son Sam Michael , 20 at the A Funny Thing Happened on...
Food &Health Skeptic (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Toss Out the Myths With the Embalming Fluid Activists like journalism professor Michael Pollan are quick to blame foods in our “Western diet” for a smorgasbord of problems -- heart disease being the most recent one. But a new investigation stuffs this foodie blame-game in a sarcophagus. Researchers examining Egyptian mummies discovered that our predecessors 3,500 years ago also suffered...
What Would Phoebe Do (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Focus on what matters: - Health : Obesity-related illness is not a myth. Exercise is unlikely to be the key to fixing this, so public-health-wise, concern regarding diet does make sense. If this can be fixed ala Pollan via switching from corn subsidies to no subsidies or efficient ones, so be it, but I know nothing about agriculture and so will stop before my local, organic foot makes its way...
Christopher Blizzard (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. A day where we say thanks for all of the good things that we’ve been lucky enough to be graced with over the last year. It’s also a day that we eat a lot of food. Earlier today I watched this talk on Deep Agriculture given by Michael Pollan [...]
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 .
The Corner (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
It's fashionable to attack modern farming methods these days, whether it's in trendy books by authors such as Michael Pollan and Jonathan Safran Foer or documentaries such as Food Inc . When you live in a society that worries more about obesity than hunger--one that produces food more abundantly than any other in human history--it's easy to take agriculture for granted and fantasize about a...
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Michael Pollan in his 2008 book "In Defense of Food" deplores the fact that not only are we not eating enough unprocessed fruits and vegetables, but we are getting our protein from animals that got to eat very little, if any, grass and were fed mainly with grains. He points out that this doesn't generate the right nutrients in the meat we eat. It produces a quality of meat that is nutrient poor...
DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Read it. Can re-education camps be far behind? Believe it or not, the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, ground zero for New York hipsters, is crawling with youthful agrarians – that is, young people whose passion is farming and food. As one Brooklyn food journalist puts it, “Every person you pass has read Michael Pollan, every person has [...]
