Book description
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his
guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone
concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food
Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating
wisely, gathered from a wide variety of sources: mothers, grandmothers,
nutritionists, anthropologists and ancient cultures among them. Whether
at the supermarket, a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this
handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would
like to become more mindful of the food we eat. In more than four
decades I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple
to follow than these principles For the past twenty years, Michael
Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural
worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture.
The Omnivore's Dilemma
, about the ethics and ecology of eating, was named one of the ten best
books of 2006 by the New York Times
and the Washington Post
. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire
, A Place of My Own
and Second Nature
and, most recently, In Defence of Food
.
