Michael pollan net worth
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In Defense of Food
2008 book by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (released internationally as In Defence of Food)[1][2] is a 2008 book by journalist and activist Michael Pollan. It was number one on the New York TimesNon-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 essay Unhappy Meals published in the New York Times Magazine.[3] Pollan has also said that he wrote In Defense of Food as a response to people asking him what they should eat after having read his previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma.[4]
In the book, Pollan explores the relationship between nutritionism and the Western diet, postulating that the answer to healthy eating is simply to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."[5] Pollan argues that nutritionism as an ideology has overcomplicated and harmed American eating habits.[4] He says that rather than focusing on eating nutrients, people should focus on eating the sort of food that their ancestors would recognize, implying that much
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Author Michael Pollan Talks About the History of the Apple
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BOB EDWARDS, host:
Henry David Thoreau wrote, ‘It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.’ That’s particularly true. The apple’s history in the United States where a passion for sweetness has transformed this simple fruit. In the second part of her conversation with Michael Pollan, author of “The Botany of Desire,” NPR’s Ketzel Levine(ph) explores the apple’s American evolution.
KETZEL LEVINE reporting:
In his rural Connecticut kitchen, under lights by the window, Michael Pollan is growing Malus domestica, the original mother of all apples.
Mr. MICHAEL POLLAN (Author, “The Botany of Desire”): Well, we’re up to about nine leaves. It’s pretty small.
LEVINE: Healthy looking little green plant.
Mr. POLLAN: It’s really healthy. This is a tough little plant. I think it’s going to do fine.
LEVINE: Pollan’s seedling is the offspring of a tree from Kazakhsta
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Michael Pollan
American author and journalist (born 1955)
Michael Kevin Pollan (; born February 6, 1955)[1] is an American journalist who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University.[2] Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where in 2020 he cofounded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program.[3][4][5] Pollan is best known for his books that explore the socio-cultural impacts of food, such as The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma.
Early life and education
Pollan was born to a Jewish family on Long Island, New York.[6][7] He is the son of author and financial consultant Stephen Pollan and columnist Corky Pollan.[8]
After studying at Mansfield College, Oxford, through 1975,[9][10][11]
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