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Michael Pollan

In conversation with Patricia Unterman

Thursday, January 3, 2008 |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These words are journalist Michael Pollan's simple answer to the complex question of what people should eat. First presented in a New York Times Magazine feature article, Pollan expands his well-considered advice in the recent In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. A clear-eyed look at what the food industry does and does not know about diet and health, In Defense of Food links ecology and tradition, concluding that life can be long and food enjoyed so long as you "don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Michael Pollan is a contributor to The New York Times and the Knight Professor of journalism at UC Berkeley. He formerly served as executive editor of Harper's Magazine. He received the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for his widely popular book The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.

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