In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto is Michael Pollan's follow-up to his bestseller, The Omnivore's Dilemma.
According to Pollan, questions of personal health did not take center stage in that book, it was more concerned with the ethical and environmental food choices. In An Eater's Manifesto he answers the question put to him by many readers: Okay, but what should I eat now? And now that you've been to the feedlots, the food-processing plants, the organic factory farms, and the local farms and ranches, what do you eat?
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet, and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context—out of the car and back to the table.
© 2008. Paperback. 244 pages.
I have tried on countless occasions to convey to my friends how incredible this book is. I have gone on endlessly about Pollan's brilliance in finding a way to write about food—but it's not really about food, it's about everything...Well the point is, I have tried and failed to explain it, so I just end up giving them a copy, and sooner or later they call to say, "You were right, it's fantastic." —Nora Ephron, The New York Times
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