Michael pollan rules for food
Q: Now you've given us Food Rules: An Eater's Manual with 64 digestible points/rules/personal policies. It seems to annoy both carnivores and vegetarians. The "mostly" (mostly plants) is controversial. The idea was to make some very easy rules people would remember. I hear it all the time and see it on T-shirts. What effect has it had?Ī: It has kind of entered the culture as a meme. Mostly plants" is a powerful, memorable statement that was in In Defense of Food and now Food Rules and sums up your food philosophy. Here's an edited version of a telephone interview with Pollan, a professor of science and environmental journalism at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California.
#Michael pollan rules for food series#
It's the third in a food series that started with The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals in 2006 and continued with In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto in 2008.įood Rules distills what Pollan has learned into 64 rules. The American author/journalism professor's Food Rules: An Eater's Manual has just been released. Take Michael Pollan's 64 new food rules and eat them.