Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan on agriculture and health care 0
Posted 1 day, 22 hours ago
A new direction on research at the USDA? 4
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Paula Crossfield interviews some experts (more Pollan!) on what we need to know about agriculture.
Cooking oil

Can you taste the fuels in your food? 5
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago To see fossil fuels in action on a farm, Amanda Little paid a visit to a Kansas corn grower and hitched a ride in his high-tech tractor. This is the fourth installment in a series of exclusive excerpts from Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells -- Our Ride to the Renewable Future.
Pollan-ated

Big Ag’s odd obsession with You-Know-Who 4
Posted 1 month ago I really really really didn't want to write another post on Michael Pollan. Don't get me wrong -- I'm a big fan. It's just that reducing the whole of the food movement to Pollan's work naturally ignores so much else that's going on. But don't blame me for this post. Blame Big Ag.
Myth congeniality

Pollan shoots down organic myths at Grist event 25
Posted 1 month ago Michael Pollan debunked some myths about organic agriculture Tuesday night at a Grist event in San Francisco, in a conversation with Grist food writer Tom Philpott and the audience. In response to a question about whether we can really feed the world without industrialized ag (ah yes, a perennial), Pollan pointed out that we're not feeding the world with it now.
The pen is mightier than agri-business

Why are (some) farmers afraid of Michael Pollan? 26
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Author Michael Pollan is no stranger to controversy. He has broadened the discussion of what we eat, where and how it is grown, big vs. small, organic farming vs. conventional. When he speaks some in the audience will love him, some will not.
Paging Dr. Pepper

Pollan says health-care reform will fail unless we change the way we eat 11
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
First in The New York Times last week and then on NPR this weekend, Michael Pollan made that point that if we want to fix our health-care system, we have to fix our food system.
Cooking the history books

More thoughts on cooking, Pollan, and Julia Child 6
Posted 3 months ago
Michael Pollan recently argued people need to cook--that they give up more than they gain from fleeing the kitchen. And he suggested that the current generation is really the first to shun cooking. Yet things might not be quite so neat.
Cook's night in

Thoughts inspired by Pollan’s provocative piece on cooking 12
Posted 3 months ago
When I think hard about what it would take to create a just and sustainable food system, two big obstacles spring immediately to mind: 1) we need more people growing food; and 2) we need more people cooking it, too. In his latest blockbuster in NYT Magazine, Michael Pollan takes on the second one. I can sum his 9,000-word jeremiad in one...
Notable quotable

Michael Pollan on the affordability of good, local, organic food 2
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
"I don't think our goal should be to make all food in America as cheap as cheap food is now. ... If the goal is cheap food, we're going to hurt our farmers, we're going to hurt the environment, we're going to hurt the public health. The goal should be to give people the money so they can afford to buy good food. ..."
Short Answer: Yes

Quiz: Should I see the critically acclaimed documentary ‘Food, Inc.’? 5
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Food, Inc. is a riveting documentary. Fast-paced and chock full of detail, the film does not shy from shocking, rarely-seen footage. But should YOU, dear reader, go see it? Take our quiz to find out.
Cooking the books

UPDATE: Washington State University reinstates freshman reading of ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’ 40
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
After unceremoniously nixing Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma as the freshman "common reading" book, Washington State University has reversed course; it will encourage the kids to read the Big Ag exposé after all.
In defense of food talk

Pollan takes Manhattan 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
With his bestselling book In Defense of Food debuting in paperback, Michael Pollan spent Thursday on the TV/radio circuit in Manhattan.
Michael Pollan defends food on Colbert Report 0
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Think Before You Eat, Agriculture and the Environment 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Speak food to power

The food movement needs to hone its political skills 1
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Despite the giddiness that comes with hearing that "a prominent food industry lobbyist... said he was amazed at how many members of Congress were carrying copies of 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,'" some felt that the article, with its focus on Alice Waters -- who becomes more controversial by the day -- and Michael Pollan as food movement "leaders," was a hit piece. Personally, I think of it as a reality check.
Let’s mend, not end, ag subsidies 3
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
If Michael Pollan ruled the world ... 1
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Grist cooks lunch for America’s leading food writer 11
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Michael Pollan, Nicholas Kristoff, and others weigh in on USDA pick 3
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago