By Michael Pollan
#1 New York instances Bestseller
Food. there is lots of it round, and all of us like to consume it. So why may still a person have to protect it?
Because within the so-called Western vitamin, nutrients has been changed through food, and customary feel by way of confusion--most of what we’re eating this day is longer the made from nature yet of meals technology. the result's what Michael Pollan calls the yankee Paradox: The extra we fear approximately foodstuff, the fewer fit we see to develop into. With In safety of Food, Pollan proposes a brand new (and very outdated) resolution to the query of what we must always devour that comes right down to seven uncomplicated yet releasing phrases: "Eat foodstuff. now not an excessive amount of. in most cases plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto exhibits us how we will be able to commence making considerate foodstuff offerings that might enhance our lives, magnify our experience of what it potential to be fit, and convey excitement again to eating.
"Michael Pollan [is the] special repository for the nation's meals conscience."
-Frank Bruni, The ny Times
" A outstanding quantity . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] deals these prescriptions americans so desperately crave."
-The Washington Post
"A tricky, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that nutrition may be redced to its dietary elements with no the lack of anything essential... [a] energetic, valuable book."
--Janet Maslin, The long island Times
"In protection of Food is written with Pollan's normal chew, ringing readability and brilliance at connecting the dots."
-The Seattle Times
Michael Pollan’s most recent e-book Cooked: A typical historical past of Transformation--the tale of our so much relied on nutrition expert’s culinary education--was released through The Penguin Press in April 2013.
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