Michael Pollan’s sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: Don’t eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food.
Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we’ll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.
Here is a short interview by Deborah Kane, Vice President of Ecotrust Food and Farms, and publisher of Edible Portland.
