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Michael Pollan
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Learn more#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, 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Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what weโre consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science.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." Pollanโs 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 author of eight books, includingย How to Change Your Mind, Cooked,ย Food Rules,ย In Defense of Food,ย The Omnivoreโs Dilemma,ย andย The Botany of Desire, all of which wereย New York Timesย bestsellers. He is also the author of the audiobookย Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Made the Modern World. A longtime contributor toย Theย New York Times Magazine, Pollan teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010,ย Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Scott Brick
ISBN:
9781429589222
Length:
6 hours 22 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date:
January 1, 2008
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#14,681 Overall
Genre rank:
#242 in Health
Reviews
"Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." —Frank Bruni, The New York Times"In this slim, remarkable volume, Pollan builds a convincing case not only against that steak dinner but against the entire Western diet." —The Washington Post
"A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential . . . [a] lively, invaluable book." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"What should I eat for dinner tonight? Here is Pollan's brilliant, succinct and nuanced answer to this question: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'" —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." —The Seattle Times
"This is an important book, short but pithy, and, like the word 'food,' not simple at all." —New York Post
"With his lucid style and innovative research, Pollan deserves his reputation as one of the most respectable voices in the modern debate about food." —The Financial Times Expand reviews