Michael Pollan: Don't Eat What You See on TV

Slow food Nation

Michael Pollan, A Food Agenda for the Next Administration

A Food Agenda for Next Administration will be a panel discussion at UC Berkeley that posits a policy framework for achieving healthy food and agriculture systems in the US. Speakers are Michael Dimock, President, Roots of Change; Michael Pollan, author and Professor, UC Graduate School of Journalism; Judith Redmond, co-owner Full Belly Farm and Board President, Community Alliance with Family Farmers; and Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State. The moderator is Cynthia Gorney, Professor, UC Graduate School of Journalism.

In Defense of Food

Exceptional book, author and lecture on one of todays hottest topics, what should I eat? How should we eat if we are concerned about health, the environment and the food shortage facing the planet?
Have cooking and gardening become subversive acts in our society?

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan's Twelve Commandments for Serious Eaters

1. Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food

2. Avoid foods containing ingredients you can't pronounce

3. Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot

4. Avoid food products that carry health claims

5. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle

6. Better yet, buy food somewhere else: the farmers' market or CSA

7. Pay more, eat less

8. Eat a wide variety of species

9. Eat food from animals that eat grass

10. Cook, and if you can, grow some of your own food

11. Eat meals and eat them only at tables

12. Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure