In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules

Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?

Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

Michael Pollan is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience.--Frank Bruni, The New York Times

A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave.--The Washington Post

A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential. a] lively, invaluable book.--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots.--The Seattle Times

Michael Pollan's most recent food book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation--the story of our most trusted food expert's culinary education--was published by Penguin Press in April 2013, and in 2016 it served as the inspiration for a four-part docuseries on Netflix by the same name.

Pollan is also the author of How to Change Your Mind What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Margery Fish was one of Britain's leading gardeners. Named a classic gardening writer by the Royal Horticultural Society, she published six other gardening books and was a regular contributor to the British periodicals Amateur Gardening and The Field. Many thousands of visitors come each year to East Lambrook Manor, her Somerset garden.

Michael Pollan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Botany of Desire and Second Nature, named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to Harper's magazine and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. Pollan chose the books for the Modern Library Gardening series because, as he writes, these writers are some of the great talkers in the rich, provocative, and frequently uproarious conversation that, metaphorically at least, has been taking place over the back fence of our gardens at least since the time of Pliny.

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ISBN 13	9781594201455
ISBN 10	1594201455
Title	In Defense of Food
Author	Michael Pollan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2008-01-01
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Winner of CODES Notable Books Council Award., Winner of James Beard Award.
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