An Eater's Manifesto

As much as I loved Omnivore’s Dilemma, I found Michael Pollan’s follow up book, In Defense of Food, to be flat and uninspiring. He makes the case that most of what the “experts” tell us about how to eat is wrong – based on flimsy or non-existent evidence and the wrong-headed, reductive way of thinking about food as a combination of individual nutrients that can be consumed in isolation from whole food. This makes sense to me, and I agree with the wisdom of his overall message: "Eat Food. Mostly Plants. Not too much." I just wasn't drawn in the way I was with Omnivore's Dilemma.