In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan

256 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink health science informative reflective fast-paced

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Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is ...

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