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Title: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Author: Michael Pollan
Genre: Pop science polemic
Thingummies: 4.5
Synopsis: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Thingummies: There was not, I suppose, that much in this book that I had no clue about. Pollan's been writing op eds for long enough that I already knew most of his basic argument. That said, I agree with a number of his conclusions (although that doesn't mean I find them easy to carry out), and I still enjoy his style of writing. He doesn't go for the gross-out, or the manufactured outrage. His writing occasionally shades purple, but he usually seems ruefully self-aware about it.
And I can't help but think that he's right. An awful lot of what we eat at this point isn't actually food. It's hard, really hard, while trying to parent a toddler in a two-career household and keep things clean and orderly and in budget and still have a social life, to avoid the amount of processed garbage. And we're a household that cooks most meals and buys from the farmers' market. Heck, we bake our own bread and desserts and have been known to make our own cheese. And my child still turns down all the delightful gorgeous produce and wants to subsist entirely on squeezer packs of apple sauce, plain white bagels, and Teddy Grahams.
Author: Michael Pollan
Genre: Pop science polemic
Thingummies: 4.5
Synopsis: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Thingummies: There was not, I suppose, that much in this book that I had no clue about. Pollan's been writing op eds for long enough that I already knew most of his basic argument. That said, I agree with a number of his conclusions (although that doesn't mean I find them easy to carry out), and I still enjoy his style of writing. He doesn't go for the gross-out, or the manufactured outrage. His writing occasionally shades purple, but he usually seems ruefully self-aware about it.
And I can't help but think that he's right. An awful lot of what we eat at this point isn't actually food. It's hard, really hard, while trying to parent a toddler in a two-career household and keep things clean and orderly and in budget and still have a social life, to avoid the amount of processed garbage. And we're a household that cooks most meals and buys from the farmers' market. Heck, we bake our own bread and desserts and have been known to make our own cheese. And my child still turns down all the delightful gorgeous produce and wants to subsist entirely on squeezer packs of apple sauce, plain white bagels, and Teddy Grahams.
