By eating food, we’re talking about eating real identifiable food, rather than the ‘food-like substances’ of modern convenience. The book’s three chapters elaborate on this maxim. Unlike most journalistic enquiries, “the picture got simpler the deeper I went”, leading Pollan to a seven word summary: “Eat food.
“I’m not a nutrition expert or a scientist” he writes, “just a curious journalist hoping to answer a straightforward question for myself and my family” – what to eat? Many of them aren’t his, but are ‘curated’ from folk wisdom, traditional diets and grandmotherly advice. Pollan’s rules are more like ‘personal policies’ for eating well, presented in accessible language.
Despite the name of the book, I thought this might help. I’m also trying to encourage good eating habits in my children without burdening them with a puritanical approach to manners and nutrition. I’ve been meaning to read it for a while.
While I was there I picked up a copy of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules to read on the train. I popped into Blackwells bookshop in Edinburgh to do some location scouting – we’re having a book launch event there on January 30 th and if you’re in the area, consider yourself invited. In very good preloved condition.Last week I was in Scotland for a series of work meetings. “In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan… You can do yourself and your family no better service than to invest $11 and one hour to whip through the 139 pages of Food Rules and adapt its guidance to your shopping and eating habits… This little book can… do more than the most authoritative text to get you motivated to make some important, lasting, health-promoting and planet-saving changes in what and how you eat.” – Jane Brody, The New York Times Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this is the perfect guide for anyone who ever wondered, “What should I eat?” It’s an easy-to-use guide that draws from a variety of traditions, suggesting how different cultures through the ages have arrived at the same enduring wisdom about food. Written with the clarity, concision, and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan’s trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, one per page, accompanied by a concise explanation. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Eating doesn’t have to be so complicated.
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