In a recent interview, food-industry expert and author Michael Pollan discusses his new book, Food Rules, and the growing movement to eat more local, healthful food and avoid the processed "edible foodlike substances." Pollan is encouraged by everything from the example being set by first lady Michelle Obama and her garden to the emergence of more sustainably raised foods. Eating more whole foods, he says, will help us address the health crisis of obesity in this country.
WALKING THE TALK
Journalist Michael Pollan spent years investigating the dilemmas and compromises and contradictions surrounding what we eat. As his topic burst into mainstream popularity, he distilled his research into seven simple words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Now, his message has moved into the realm of practical advice on how to carry out that directive. His short new book, Food Rules, covers 64 basic precepts for eating well, and has been praised as the most "intelligent, sensible and simple-to-follow" principles of nutrition around. In the process, Pollan himself has morphed from an investigative reporter to a hero in the national movement to make better choices about food.
Pollan will speak at the American Cheese Society conference in Seattle in August; he talked with us in advance by phone from his Berkeley, Calif., home about food, politics, Seattle and fermentation.
Q: What brings you to the Seattle conference?
A: Anything having to do with fermentation I'm interested in, so I thought it would be really good to meet these cheesemakers. There's such an interesting renaissance going on in cheesemaking in this country. Plus, I like to eat cheese. Given a choice between a cheese course and a dessert course, I'll usually go for the cheese
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