9780143114963-0143114964-In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

ISBN-13: 9780143114963
ISBN-10: 0143114964
Edition: 1
Author: Michael Pollan
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780143114963
ISBN-10: 0143114964
Edition: 1
Author: Michael Pollan
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 256 pages

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (ISBN-13: 9780143114963 and ISBN-10: 0143114964), written by authors Michael Pollan, was published by Penguin Books in 2009. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Cooking Education & Reference (Other Diets, Diets & Weight Loss, Vegetarian, Caffeine, Nutrition) books. You can easily purchase or rent In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cooking Education & Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.56.

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Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science.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

"Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience."—Frank Bruni, The New York Times

" A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave."—The Washington Post

"A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots."—The Seattle Times


Michael Pollan’s most recent food book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation--the story of our most trusted food expert’s culinary education--was published by Penguin Press in April 2013, and in 2016 it served as the inspiration for a four-part docuseries on Netflix by the same name.

Pollan is also the author of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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