?Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan suggests, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food marketers, nutritional scientists and journalists - all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. Indeed, real food is fast being replaced by ?nutrients', as plain eating is supplanted by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention disparaging our taste buds. In Defence of Food shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will holistically enrich our lives, our palates, and nurture our sense of what it means to be healthy.
256pp, 138mm x 218mm, hardback, 2008