In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Pollan, Michael
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Brand New-" #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 Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion-most of what we're consuming today is no longer the product of nature but of food science.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 reduced 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. "
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto is a 2008 book by Michael Pollan. It was number one on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 article Unhappy Meals published in the New York Times Magazine. Pollan has also said that he wrote In Defense of Food as a response to people asking him what they should eat after having read The Omnivore's Dilemma, his previous book.
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- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
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- Title
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
- Author
- Pollan, Michael
- Book Condition
- New New
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- New
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594201455
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201455
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8 vo
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