MICHAEL POLLAN explores the question he heard most often from readers of his last book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: what should we eat? The answer is no mystery and certainly not complicated. Indeed, Pollan sums up his core message in seven words: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” If you’re wondering how pseudo-science supplanted the food wisdom of our elders, or you’re nonplussed by the processed products that our great-grandmothers would never have recognised as food, then you’ll find Pollan’s history of “nutritionism”, as he calls it, fascinating.
In Defence of Food
Allen Lane
