“People say they don’t have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.”

Michael Pollan, journalist, educator, activist, author, writer


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idof-3“Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because most of what we’re consuming today is not food, and how we’re consuming it — in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone — is not really eating. Instead of food, we’re consuming “edible foodlike substances” — no longer the products of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.”

In Defense of Food

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