To anyone who has read Pollan's best-selling “In Defense of Food” and “The Omnivore's Dilemma,” this jars slightly. Wasn't this the man who told us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants”? Pollan counseled making vegetables, not meat, the mainstay …
Michael Pollan's seventh book will not substantially surprise readers of the first six. Mr. Pollan has often said that we lose touch with the basic facts of food production at our own peril, and that shared meals hold families and communities together …