In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion—most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Michael Pollan. (2008). In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Michael Pollan. 2008. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Penguin Publishing Group, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Michael Pollan. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Penguin Publishing Group, 2008.
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 1 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/9AC/DA5/27/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/9AC/DA5/27/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101147382
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B000VMFDR2
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101147382
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780143114963
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Michael Pollan
- title
- In Defense of Food
- dateAdded
- 2014-11-21T15:06:00-05:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=670&titleID=203671
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Aurora Public Library (CO)
- id: 2536
- sortTitle
- In Defense of Food An Eaters Manifesto
- crossRefId
- 203671
- subtitle
- An Eater's Manifesto
- id
- 9acda527-faac-468d-9cb0-aee435dd910e
- starRating
- 4.2
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: InDefenseofFood_9781101147382_203671
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 880969
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101147382
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 1/1/2008
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/9AC/DA5/27/InDefenseofFood9781429581233.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: InDefenseofFood_203671
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B000VMFDR2
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 1/1/2008
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/9AC/DA5/27/InDefenseofFood9781429581233.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: InDefenseofFood_9781101147382_203671
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781101147382
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 1/1/2008
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/9AC/DA5/27/InDefenseofFood9781429581233.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Agribusiness
- value: politics
- value: eating
- value: Food
- value: health
- value: Cooking
- value: Business
- value: Nature
- value: non-fiction
- value: gastronomy
- value: philosophy
- value: Farming
- value: Journalism
- value: Consumerism
- value: culinary
- value: health and fitness
- value: Environment
- value: cookbook
- value: diet
- value: Healthy eating
- value: food industry
- value: Agriculture
- value: nutrition
- value: Vegetarian
- value: Economics
- value: Food Science
- value: clean eating
- value: diet books
- value: weight loss book
- value: caffeine
- value: food culture
- value: michael pollan
- value: eat healthy
- value: food politics
- value: food writing
- value: healthy cookbook
- value: gardening essays
- value: natural food
- value: processed food
- value: food books
- value: pollan
- value: in defense of food
- value: simple food
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Pollan, Michael
- bioText:
Michael Pollan is the author of three previous books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, and The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the Am
- name: Michael Pollan
- imprint
- Penguin Books
- publishDate
- 2008-01-01T00:00:00-05:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- In Defense of Food
- fullDescription
- #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion—most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating. - gradeLevels
- value: Grade 12
- popularity
- 1775
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BQgIAAA2A/products/9acda527-faac-468d-9cb0-aee435dd910e/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 9acda527-faac-468d-9cb0-aee435dd910e
- starRating
- 4.2
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/9AC/DA5/27/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/9AC/DA5/27/{9ACDA527-FAAC-468D-9CB0-AEE435DD910E}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Health & Fitness
- value: Sociology
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 1/1/2008
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781594201455
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion—most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means... - sortTitle
- In Defense of Food An Eaters Manifesto
- lexileScore
- 1390
- crossRefId
- 203671
- awards
- source: Notable Books Council
- value: Notable Books for Adults
- subtitle
- An Eater's Manifesto
- publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- tableOfContents
- In Defense Of FoodIntroduction: An Eater's Manifesto
I. The Age Of Nutritionism
One: From Foods to Nutrients
Two: Nutritionism Defined
Three: Nutritionism Comes to Market
Four: Food Science's Golden Age
Five: The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis
Six: Eat Right, Get Fatter
Seven: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Eight: The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding
Nine: Bad Science
Ten: Nutritionism's ChildrenII. The Western Diet And The Diseases of Civilization
One: The Aborigine in All of Us
Two: The Elephant in the Room
Three: The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know
1. From Whole Foods to Refined
2. From Complexity to Simplicity
3. From Quality to Quantity
4. From Leaves to Seeds
5. From Food Culture to Food ScienceIII. Getting Over Nutritionism
One: Escape from the Western Diet
Two: Eat Food: Food Defined
Three: Mostly Plants: What to Eat
Four: Not Too Much: How to EatAcknowledgments
Sources
Resources
Index - bisacCodes
- code: HEA010000
- description: Health & Fitness / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene
- code: HEA017000
- description: Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition
- code: HEA028000
- description: Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues