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Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2008) 4 stars

A nutrition-oriented analysis of industrial food production, a presentation of the baleful consequences and suggestions …

Review of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A great follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma. This book moves on from that one's coverage of how food is produced to ask the question "What should we be eating?" and comes away with a deceptively simple answer: "Food. Not too much. Mostly plants." The rest of the book breaks down that answer and tries to explain why it's not necessarily as self-evident as it first seems. Ask yourself how much time in the past week you actually spent really thinking about, enjoying, or making food. If the answer is less than a few hours, pick this book up and find out what you're missing.