Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food

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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifestogreat-great grandmother would not recognize as food.»
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  • Paulina Hernández Marroquínhas quoted2 years ago
    course when it comes to food, culture is another word for mom, the figure who typically passes on the food ways of the group—food ways that endured, by the way, only because they tended to keep people healthy.
  • Paulina Hernández Marroquínhas quoted2 years ago
    The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.
  • b7009098283has quoted2 years ago
    Here are a couple more: What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

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