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The fine folks at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, known for their brilliant sketchnote animations of talks by prominent authors and scientists, recently launched a competition, inviting emerging filmmakers to bring RSA talks to life in...
His book ($7) provides an easy-to-follow set of rules to keep in mind while you're nourishing your body. Using tips and tricks passed down from many cultures and ethnicities, Food Rules is next on our book list. Outblush is a blog for girls who love to...
I’m really impressed with the diversity of these farms, how many different crops they have, and combining animals and plants, and taking advantage of the recycling abilities when you can produce manure to feed your crops, and produce feed for your animals ... When you can close that nutrient loop, you c...
Buenos Aires. One day, all public transport will be like this Michael Pollan, animated by Marija Jacimovic What if hotel bills were like (US) hospital bills. A good point well made Harnessing the power of human stupidity to save endangered animals More...
Fields and the Dinner Table Tracie McMillan Scribner: 336 pp. , $25 Readers curious about food have been able to deepen their knowledge exponentially over the last decade. They know how bad fast food is (thanks to Eric Schlosser), understand the...
Detalle and Marija Jacimovic, a freelance editor and animator, created this adorable film of animated vegetables explaining how Berkeley author Michael Pollan’s “Food Rules” work. Pollan’s message here is that organic works, especially in the developing...
I served Michael Pollan a spruce shoot compote next to roasted mutton one night at a restaurant in Boston. I told him he was eating a tree, and he seemed pleased
“The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.” Prominent thought [...]
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Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is an American professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. Full Article
I’m really impressed with the diversity of these farms, how many different crops they have, and combining animals and plants, and taking advantage of the recycling abilities when you can produce manure to feed your crops, and produce feed for your animals ... When you can close that nutrient loop, you c...
I served Michael Pollan a spruce shoot compote next to roasted mutton one night at a restaurant in Boston. I told him he was eating a tree, and he seemed pleased
I think there’s a group of Chinese, still quite small, that’s beginning to question the industrial food system here, largely because of concerns over food safety ... I’m amazed at the levels of distrust of food. There are people who ask, ‘are you eating at restaurants in Beijing?’ – as though they were ...
Hal Herzog does for our relationship with animals what Michael Pollan in The Omnivores Dilemma did for our relationship with food.
Much of the carbon footprint of beef comes from growing grain to feed the animals, which requires fossil-fuel-based fertilizers, pesticides, transportation ... Grass-fed beef has a much lighter carbon footprint.
