He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature. The battle for Bakhmut has killed two Russian commanders in the last 24 hours, its ministry of defence has said. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. loaded with flavour'įor the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. Time Out 'Read this witty book for a healthier life and diet'įay Maschler, Keynote 'A must-read. Sense, at last'ĭaily Mail 'Pollan invites us to grab our pots and pans and cook some real food for dinner' Sunday Times 'Instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating.

'Brings home the real wonder of eating food' It's time to fall in love with food again. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize.īy following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. Michael Pollans new book, In Defense of Food, really hits the mark when it comes to assessing the state of eating in America today.

Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. 1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivores Dilemma, and Food Rules Food.

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