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The best books spark the best conversations; I enjoyed reading this tiny little manual on healthful eating while discussing pertinent parts with my husband.
Love it! So far, sweet and simple and funny.
I will read it 1 zillion times.
I will read it 1 zillion times.
Short, simple, and so many good rules. And I love Maira Kalman's illustrations.
"It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car."
"Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself."
"If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you're probably not hungry."
"Cook."
"It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car."
"Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself."
"If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you're probably not hungry."
"Cook."
The book is short enough, but I'm glad I checked it out from the neighborhood library and didn't pay for it. It's hard to believe there are people out here who don't already know this stuff.
Pollan's got a lot of common sense advice on how to eat without making a huge impact on our ecosystem. It's a short read, but a lot to digest. :-)
A quick read (30 minutes?), valuable as a sharp reminder of the basic nutritional facts you probably already knew on some level. Pollan's no-nonsense condensing of the information is likely to serve as an effective bop on the nose for eaters who should really know better, if only they'd listened to the common sense of older generations for whom food was a simpler but more thoughtful luxury. Even so, there were some facts I hadn't thought about myself, but in hindsight probably should have, such as the over-processing of soy products marketed at vegetarians like me. I'll be more mindful of that from now on.
There's a point of pride in realizing the extent to which I already adhere to much of this dietary wisdom, but aside from stoking my ego I think the book could find good use as a straightforward and perhaps usefully alarming wakeup call for less conscientious eaters.
There's a point of pride in realizing the extent to which I already adhere to much of this dietary wisdom, but aside from stoking my ego I think the book could find good use as a straightforward and perhaps usefully alarming wakeup call for less conscientious eaters.
I read this w/o having read his other books. While sold as a stand alone book, I would call it (1) a companion piece to his other books and (2) a lot of pages and money for essentially a long list that should have been free on the internet.
An Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense Of Food condensed to a pocket-sized afternoon read. Or, a longer form of Pollan's seven-word manifesto: "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
This book was exactly what I was looking for and I didn't put it down. Read the whole thing in 2 hours. Simple, informative, and insightful. Pollan collects informal cultural adages, proverbs, and wisdom which become easy to digest food rules.