There’s a bumper crop of reviews of Michael Pollan’s new book, "In Defense of Food" (see ours) along with an interview with the SOLE Brother No. 1 about it on NPR. A round-up of the raves and the half-raves:
"A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential." — New York Times
"Pollan’s advice is sensible and even inspiring. It can, however, be faulted as a little elitist." — San Francisco Chronicle)
"He does have a tendency to hurtle himself into the stratosphere like an errant missile, then plummet back to earth and casually pick up where he left off." — Slate
"Pollan isn’t just asking us to consider changing the way we eat. He’s asking us to join a movement that’s ‘renovating our food system in the name of health.’" — L.A. Times
"If you read one book about food this year, [this] should be it." — The Portland Mercury
"Modern nutrition may be more of an ideology than a science, but so is Pollan’s nutritional Darwinism." — Slate
"Pollan lays bare with impassioned but clear-eyed intelligence the sinister machinations of the contemporary American food industry." — New York Post
"[The food movement] couldn’t pray for a better mouthpiece." — Plenty
"Pollan’s succeeded in reducing Nestle’s formula to a mere seven words, which, in this era of ever shorter attention spans, is, I suppose, a public service." — Eating Liberally
"Page for page, it contains more intellectual and moral nutrition than practically any other book I’m aware of." — San Francisco Bay Guardian
"A slim volume dispensing advice much of which appears to have been gleaned from reporting the earlier book." — Macleans.ca
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