Tag Archive for ‘Michael Pollan’
Heavy meal parking lot
By Matthew Ralph There are probably few sights in my mind more symbolic of problems with the American diet than watching a teenager with a baggy white shirt and crew cut folding a cheese-oozing quesadilla in half and shoving it long-ways into his mouth on the way to a minivan where the rest of his […]
Elsewhere: Pollan talks food policy
Michael Pollan, author of “In Defense of Food” and “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” recently talked to WYNC about what the next president should do about American food policy. Pollan wrote about the subject in a New York Times Magazine piece titled “Farmer In Chief.” Among other things, Pollan discusses rolling back subsidies on corn and soy that […]