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  • Published: 27 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141962979
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Food Rules

An Eater's Manual




'A choral compendium of food wisdom' by the No 1 New York Times bestselling writer

Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.

Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a wide variety of sources: mothers, grandmothers, nutritionists, anthropologists and ancient cultures among them.

Whether at the supermarket, a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.

For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. The Omnivore's Dilemma, about the ethics and ecology of eating, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature and, most recently, In Defence of Food.

  • Published: 27 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141962979
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

About the author

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author of five previous books, including In Defence of Food, a number one New York Times bestseller, and The Omnivore's Dilemma, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Both books won the James Beard Award. A long-time contributor to the New York Times Magazine, he is also the Knight Profes­sor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Praise for Food Rules

Instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating . . . Sense, at last

praise for In Defence of Food, Daily Mail

Pollan invites us to grab our pots and pans and cook some real food for dinner

praise for In Defence of Food, Time Out

Read this witty book for a healthier life and diet

praise for In Defence of Food, The Times

In more than four decades I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than these principles

Jane E. Brody, The New York Times