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Michael Pollan

Nato: February 6, 1955 – Long Island, New York, USA

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Michael Pollan is an American author and journalist known for his influential books on food, agriculture, and psychoactive plants, including The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, The Botany of Desire, and How to Change Your Mind. A longtime New York Times Magazine contributor, Pollan’s works have won major awards and achieved bestseller status worldwide.

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Michael Pollan, born in 1955 on Long Island to a family of writers, emerged as one of the most influential voices on food, nature, and society in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The son of author Stephen Pollan and columnist Corky Pollan, Michael grew up immersed in language and storytelling. He studied English at Bennington College and Mansfield College, Oxford, before earning an M.A. from Columbia University, which laid the foundation for his lucid, probing prose.

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants

-In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

You are what what you eat eats

-In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food

-In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

So that's us: processed corn, walking

-The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do

-The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world

-The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't

-In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

-Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Shake the hand that feeds you

-In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land

-The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Potrebbe Piacerti Anche

Joe Dispenza

Malcolm Gladwell

Steven Pinker

David Perlmutter

Michael Hyatt

Michael Lewis

Mike Michalowicz

Steven Kotler

Libri Popolari

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

Investigation into the potential of psychedelics for personal transformation.

In Defense of Food

Michael Pollan

Challenging industrial diets, advocating for whole, natural foods.

The Botany of Desire

Michael Pollan

Explores how plants and humans have coevolved, examining four desires through apples, tulips, cannabis, and potatoes.

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

Exploring opium, coffee, and mescaline's impact on human consciousness and culture.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

Explores how our food choices connect to ecology, politics and culture through four fundamental meals.