Dinner & A Book - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Join me and my guest Mike Keen, as we discuss Michael Pollan’s "In Defense Of Food" while we prepare a meal of mostly plants, and not too much, on Dinner and a Book.

Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By urging us to once again eat food, he challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach - what he calls nutritionism - and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food.

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. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.