In Videos: Michael Pollan on 'Nightline'
Last night's Nightline featured Michael Pollan talking about his twelve commandments for eating from his book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto:
In general, I'm inclined to stick with the tried and true when it comes to food. And let the novelties be tested for a while. I think we need to begin to spend more on food, both in terms of money and in time. I know that's not a popular message. People like their convenience foods. But this experiment of outsourcing our food preparation to corporations has failed us. I mean, it's left us really unhealthy, really unsatisfied. And I think it's undermined the family life and undermined the community.
Video after the jump.
Michael Pollan on 'Nightline'
Previously
Michael Pollan's Twelve Commandments for Serious Eaters: Can You Live By Them?
In Videos: Michael Pollan Lectures at Google
In Videos: Michael Pollan Interview and Lecture
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Michael Pollan is a brilliant man. (Aside and apart from the fact that he uses rhetoric like a finely-honed tool to create the most perfect manifestations of his brilliance.)
But I'm afraid that when I read anything at all sadly extolling how family life has been undermined in our modern time by convenience foods I remember something written by MFK Fisher, back in the times when the Family Dinner was an Institution:
The cold truth is that family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
An unforgettable quote. :)
Karen Resta at 12:50PM on 05/09/08
Pollan is also a professor at Berkeley, sometimes he gives lectures at a particular Poli Sci lecture series. Here's a link to a webcast from a year ago.
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978399
melodylio at 1:02PM on 05/09/08