Author Michael Pollan to visit MSU Wharton Center
Don’t ever say universities don’t encourage dialogue because you will hear plenty of it when Michael Pollan, America’s number one critic of how we grow, raise, eat and process our food makes an appearance at 7:30 p.m., Monday April 12 at the Wharton Center on the campus of MSU. Click here for more information. Tickets are $20.
On the face of it, Pollan will be walking into the lion’s den of corporate agriculture to discuss his ideas about food which have caught on like soft serve. His books, “Omnivore’s Dilemna”, “In Defense of Food”, and “Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants” have really made an impression on not only people who are concerned about what they they and how we eat I, but also on corporate agriculture. He will likely talk about his new book “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual” which is 64 plain speaking directives to help us guide our eating habits and the food we eat.
Pollan in interviews has admitted to borrowing many of the rules from grandmothers and also from submissions to his blog site. Rule number one may be if you are writing a food book let someone else write it for you. Visit Pollan’s website by clicking here.
A couple of Pollan’s Food Rules:
If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t.”
It’s not food if it’s served through the window of your car.”
“It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language.”
I just hope Wharton doesn’t get crazy and sell healthy snacks in the concession area.
