In defense of food

"Having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me..." Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a post-colonial novel, if only she could work out just what that means, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with…

So there I was, surfing Pinterest looking for healthy meals to add to my menu plan. I wanted some quick, easy soups to mix in my Blendtec and toss in the freezer to be reheated

An Eater’s Manifesto Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because most of what we’re consuming today is not food, and how we’re consuming it — in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone — is not really […]

Ten not-to-be-missed books with excellent food writing.

In Defense Of Food [Pollan, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Defense Of Food

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto [Pollan, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Foodie intellectual Michael Pollan lectures at the Paramount

With the holidays upon us, food is a topic at the front of our minds. The centerpiece of our tables, cultures, and familial traditions, food is nourishment for both body and mind. What we eat, however, is also at the center of a growing discipline that marries science and the humanities.