Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780143114963
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0143114964
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 28, 2009
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in In Defense of Food is a series of wonderfully clear and thoughtful answers that help us omnivores navigate the nutritional minefield that's come to typify our food culture. Many processed foods vie for a spot in our grocery baskets, claiming to lower cholesterol, weight, glucose levels, you name it. Yet Pollan shows that these convenient "healthy" alternatives to whole foods are appallingly inconvenient: our health has a nation has only deteriorated since we started exiling carbs, fats--even fruits--from our daily meals. His razor-sharp analysis of the American diet (as well as its architects and its detractors) offers an inspiring glimpse of what it would be like if we could (a la Humpty Dumpty) put our food back together again and reconsider what it means to eat well. In a season filled with rallying cries to lose weight and be healthy, Pollan's call to action—"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."--is a program I actually want to follow. --Anne Bartholomew



Product Description:
The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new 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.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating:

Rating: - Read it and Weep
If you want to understand what's happened to the food supply in the last sixty years and the road that led to the vitamin crazy--this is your book.

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Rating: - Okay. But not his best work.
In comparison to his book The Omnivore's Dilemma, this book was somewhat boring. Many things are repeated in this book. Worth reading if you are studying nutrition or America's food system. But, if you had to read one of his books, I would recommend to read The Omnivore's Dilemma over this book.

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Rating: - Great intro on the Food Industry and "Food Science"
This is a pretty concise, well organized book covering the biggest problems in our food industry and "food science". It's not a long read at all, and totally informative without being a "do this, do that" type book.
In fact, if anything Pollan is great at letting you figure out the value of what it is you eat and how it effects you and your family.

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Rating: - More than "An Eater's Manifesto"
I aspire to be a traditional Catholic. Part of this necessarily involves a rejection of today's reigning death cult and its diabolical effluvia: nihilism, relativism, contraception, infanticide, suicidal tolerance, homosexual "marriage," etc. etc.... Alas, this kind of traditionalism is beyond the bounds of our blessed cognoscenti's famous tolerance. Well within its bounds, however - given today's growing neopagan cult of the body - is the embrace of various traditional diets. The promotion of this ... Read More

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Rating: - Common food sense for the masses. A MUST READ.
The American public has long been a captive audience of food industry corporations. They push onto our grocery store shelves inexpensive food dressed up to dazzle and seduce, all the while telling us it is good for us. The main name of the game is profit. And the clever foods corporations figured out cheaper and faster ways to produce a number of "building block material" they could use to craft all kinds of food products. Most of processed food is comprised of bleached flour, corn syrup, sodium, ... Read More

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