In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143114963)

#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, 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Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science.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.

Author: Michael Pollan
ISBN-10: 0143114964
ISBN-13: 9780143114963
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/31/2009 pg. 32
Commonweal 06/19/2009 pg. 29
New Yorker (The) 06/22/2009 pg. 83
Library Journal 09/01/2014

About the Author

Michael Pollan is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He's also the author of the audiobook Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.