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Michael Pollan
Sausage Party Is Basically the Dirtiest, Most Sadistic Food Movie EverWatch Seth Rogen try to get his wiener package next to Kristen Wiig’s buns.
By Clint Rainey
Watch the Trailer for Cooked “When we learned to cook is when we truly became human.”
By Chris Crowley
Quote of the Day
Apr. 24, 2014
Michael Pollan Doesn’t Quite Understand the Fuss Over His Most Famous Line That includes fermented foods like kimchi, he says, but adds he’s not updating the line.
By Hugh Merwin
Food Politics
June 4, 2013
By Hugh Merwin
Femivores vs. Feminists: Let the Debate Begin A new book argues that the current food movement is triggering a kind of backslide in the way women assume responsibility for the kitchen and home.
By Jay Barmann
Mary Risley Lashes Back at Michael Pollan About the Impact of Food TV She disagrees that cooking shows are ‘scaring us out of the kitchen.’
By Jay Barmann
In Conversation
Apr. 14, 2013
In Conversation: Michael Pollan and Adam Platt The original promoter of the ethically minded, locally grown approach to feeding ourselves holds forth on his favorite junk food, his microbial menagerie, and the evils lurking in a tube of Go-Gurt.
By Adam Platt
Local Writer and Cooking Teacher Samin Nosrat Lands Her First Book Deal The Chez Panisse alum and Michael Pollan protege will now make a name for herself.
By Jay Barmann
Get Ready for a Pollan Family Cookbook More Pollan wisdom is coming your way.
By Hugh Merwin
Food Politics
Nov. 8, 2012
By Jay Barmann
Let Them Eat Foie
June 5, 2012
L.A. and S.F. Chefs Look Beyond the Ban Michael Pollan thinks the upcoming restriction placed on foie gras is just red herring.
By Hadley Tomicki
Quote of the Day
Feb. 22, 2012
By Jay Barmann
Go Ask Alice
Nov. 23, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Go Ask Alice
Nov. 17, 2011
Alice Waters Visits China, Troubled to Find No Organic Duck She’s on a joint cultural-diplomatic mission with a gang of American celebrities.
By Jay Barmann
Social Change
Nov. 2, 2011
Michael Pollan Basically Compares His Cause to Abolitionism and Women’s “There is no question that there is an elite strand within the food movement, but a lot of social change movements in this country … have been started by the affluent.”
By Jay Barmann
Foodies With Benefits
June 23, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Loco for Locavores
Jan. 11, 2011
The Omnivore’s Dilemna Meets Fast Food Nation at USC. DepressedEvan Kleiman will moderate a discussion with Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, potentially injecting some humor into the earnest plea for better eating habits.
By Hadley Tomicki
Health Concerns
Nov. 29, 2010
Pollan and Schlosser Tag Team to Pimp Food Safety Bill The sustainable food dream team try to rally support for the bill Congress is voting on shortly.
By Jay Barmann
Don Some Alice Waters Drag This Halloween All you need is a purple hat, some scarves, and some “vegetables that you can gaze upon beatifically.”
By Jay Barmann
Video Feed
Sept. 30, 2010
Another Documentary Tries to Turn Food Inc. Frown Upside Down ’Fresh’ attempts to put a brighter spin on the food crisis by focusing on farmers and others who are taking positive, if small, steps.
By Jay Barmann
Michael Pollan Honored by Yoko Ono for ‘Contributions to World At an Icelandic ceremony involving an illuminated John Lennon memorial, no less.
By Helen Rosner
Health Concerns
Aug. 20, 2010
Easy Solution to the Egg Recall: Don’t Buy Cheap Eggs Michael Pollan is probably right; $8 for untainted, local eggs doesn’t sound so bad right now.
By Jay Barmann
Michael Pollan Thinks $8 For a Dozen Eggs Is a Bargain “Eight dollars for a dozen eggs sounds outrageous, but when you think that you can make a delicious meal from two eggs, that’s $1.50.”
By Jay Barmann
Go Ask Alice
Apr. 9, 2010
Why Does Alice Waters Inspire So Many Haters? The ‘lightning rod for Berkeley elitism’ gets reamed once more in a national publication.
By Jay Barmann
Salinger’s Fiction Was Heavy with Food; Is Pork the New Viagra? The mysterious late author used eating as a device and Argentina’s president offers a new aphrodisiac.
By Hadley Tomicki
The New York Diet
Jan. 8, 2010
Michael Pollan Forages for Chanterelles, Doesn’t Sweat Unsustainable Sushi “I had twelve-grain toast with smoked salmon that my mother had gotten from Barney Greengrass.”
By Alexandra Vallis
Food Politics
Jan. 5, 2010
Michael Pollan: Health-Care Reform Will Change Our Diets “Right now, the food industry creates patients for the health-care industry,” says the author of ‘Food Rules.’
By Aileen Gallagher
Cal Poly Yanks Pollan Lecture After Beef Co. Balks Harris Ranch threatened to yank its donations if Pollan spoke “unchallenged,” so the university changed his speaking format to a panel discussion.
By Adam Martin
Other Magazines
Oct. 7, 2009
Times Previews Killjoy Food IssueRules to eat by and a low-low-calorie diet are among the stories in this year’s edition.
By Aileen Gallagher
Food Politics
Sept. 10, 2009
Michael Pollan Wants to Reform Health Care, Too Want to change the way Americans eat? Get the insurance industry involved.
By Aileen Gallagher
Food Politics
Aug. 28, 2009
Pollan Boycotts Whole Foods Boycott “Support for the farmers matters more to me than the political views of their founder.”
By Alexandra Vallis
Ethical Eating
Aug. 3, 2009
The End of Cooking We’re fat because we don’t cook, according to Michael Pollan’s long and winding essay in this weeks’ ‘New York Times Magazine.
By Ben Leventhal
Women Picky About First-Date Restaurants; Food-Safety Bill Passes Plus: FDA food-safety bill passed, and Michael Pollan on Julia Child, all in our morning news roundup.
By Alexandra Vallis
party lines
June 10, 2009
Arugula Is a Hot-button Political Issue But it’s in every Olive Garden, says author Michael Pollan.
By Jada Yuan
Food, Inc. : Finally, Something Bourdain and Waters Can Both Get BehindPlus, why was ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’ almost dumped by Washington State University?
By Daniel Maurer
Barber, Pollan Get Behind Latest Locavore Flick A new film brings farmer-minded dinners, a panel discussion, and of course a “call to action.”
By Daniel Maurer
Meaningless Honors
Mar. 30, 2009
Rolling Stone Recognizes Dave Chang’s Contribution to Door PoliciesDave Chang, Michael Pollan, and Philippe Starck are among ‘Rolling Stone”s 2009 “100 Agents of Change.”
By Ben Leventhal
Viva la Food Revolution? A so-called food revolution has begun, but it faces some obstacles.
By Daniel Maurer
Michael Pollan Solicits Eating Tips What advice did your grandmother give you?
By Alexandra Vallis
Hillary Goes Nutter at Buddakan; Michael Pollan Is Not Happy Plus: old-school dim-sum restaurant HSF shutters, and hope for Jefferson Market, all in our morning news roundup.
By Leila Cohan-Miccio
School Lunches Go Locavore; Ed Brown Goes Fishing Slow Food lecturers are boring, the cocktails of ‘Mad Men,’ and more, in our morning news roundup.
What Gwyneth Ate in Spain; Chodorow No Stranger to Irony Gwyneth Paltrow wasn’t a food snob in Spain, what sells best at Kobe Club, Michael Pollan says people should spend more money on food, and more in our morning roundup of food news and gossip.
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