Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Reading.... In Defense of Food (by Michael Pollan)

Either you're shocked to find that most of what people in the first (Western ?) world eat isn't food, or you already avoid the interior aisles of the supermarket (and possibly the supermarket itself). We're eating "food-like substances".

Michael Pollan spells it all out for you, with a wonderful section filled with simple "rules" that make it easy to select only 'real' food if you agree with his points. My favorite is "don't eat anything that your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food".

He has a web site, but you have to go to the bookstore, Amazon, etc. to buy the book. Well worth it !

Pollan's site: http://www.michaelpollan.com/indefense.php

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