Pollan, Michael

From the bestselling author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" comes this collection of simple, sensible, and easy to use rules--the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food he or she eats. (Consumer Health).

Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to the tulip markets of Amsterdam.

Follows the three major food chains that feed humans--industrial, organic, and hunter-gatherer--from the earth to four meals, exploring the ethical and political effects of one's food choices.

Challenges current approaches to healthy eating, arguing that the real food consumed by past generations is being replaced with commercialized, scientifically altered foods that offer no health benefits and may cause serious damage, and encourages people to change the way they eat and return to basic nutrition rules.

The author's account of his experiences in the garden and what it has to teach us.

A guide to health and food that contains rules for eating well, with insights from various ethnic and cultural traditions.

Challenges current approaches to healthy eating, arguing that the real food consumed by past generations is being replaced with commercialized, scientifically altered foods that offer no health benefits and may cause serious damage, and encourages people to change the way they eat and return to basic nutrition rules.

The author shares the physical and philosophical aspects of building a writing cabin, an enterprise he embarked upon with the sometimes conflicting advice of an architect and a carpenter and completed over the course of two-and-a-half years of Saturday afternoons.

Follows the path of industrial food, organic or alternative food, pastoral food, and foraged food from its source to its final meal to discover what Americans eat and what it says about their evolution. Discusses how the food choices that Americans make have long-reaching political, economic, psychological, and moral implications.