Michael Pollan: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

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In his most recent book, "Food Rules," Pollan doles out 64 guidelines that are as easy to remember as his most well-known mantra: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (His second most-repeated rule? "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.") "I really don't want people to have to count calories and to read labels," he says. How we eat has changed so much in the past 50 years that we all could use the reminders: "Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk." "Always leave the table a little hungry." (One of his personal favorites is "The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead.") Pollan says that one of the biggest problems is that we've been conditioned, primarily by food marketers and manufacturers, to think that we're supposed to spend as little time as possible shopping for, cooking and eating our meals.

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"Farmers: What Do You Think Of Pollan's Ideas?" - from NPR's Talk of the Nation

Writer Michael Pollan famously advises eat food, not too much, mostly plants. And don't buy food you've seen advertised on TV. And that's just the kernel of his ideas about the American food industry and American agriculture in his enormously popular books, including his latest, "In Defense of Food." Last month the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave that book to all incoming freshman and urged professors to discuss it in class, which as you might suspect set off a Donnybrook in a heavily agricultural state.

The full transcript from the show, including the podcast can be found here. See also: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Second Nature: A Gardener's EducationA Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams, The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder, Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World (Io Series)

"Michael Pollan: If You Can't Say It, Don't Eat It" - from NPR's Day to Day

If your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food, then neither should you, award-winning writer Michael Pollan is wont to say. He shares additional tips on how to eat for a healthier body and planet, the focus of his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

A few pages of the book, as well as the podcast of the show can be found here. See also: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education