I strolled through the park this morning with the dogs and was listening to a Bill Moyers’ podcast where he was interviewing Michael Pollan. First, this is a biased statement I LOVE MICHAEL POLLAN. Okay, now that I’ve informed you of my bias, I’ll point you to the open letter to the President that Pollan took out when Obama was elected. Perhaps one of the best pieces of writing the New York Times has ever…
I’m midway into the Omnivore’s Dilemma and decided to peruse the labels in our refrigerator feeling sure that no high fructose corn syrup was present anywhere because we don’t eat processed food and ah ha – I found some in the sweet pickle relish that I use for my tuna fish salad, I found it in the Creole Tomato dressing that I adore and now want to write them and tell them to change it,…
I finished reading In Defense of Food and ordered The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Pollan talks a lot about things that are core to my belief but he also points his finger directly at some habits that have been hard to kick. Americans, he says, are driven to consume food on the go and in the recent decades solely on the basis of nutrition nonsense rather than the pleasure of eating. I would say when I see…