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Pollan in the News

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

From an interview with Michael Pollan about What's Wrong with Environmentalism in Yale's online magazine e360. I don't see myself as a writer of food and the environment. I see myself as a kind of nature writer who likes writing about the messy places where the human world and the natural ...

Alton Brown

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

[flickr align="right" style="padding-left: 5px;"]photo:2448149929(small)[/flickr] I don't like Good Eats. It annoys me. I don't like when people take classic recipes and re-engineer them no matter how similar the end results and Alton Brown's on screen personality--which grates on me in a way few can-leaves me feeling almost physically uncomfortable. Still, I'd ...

Harvesting Fear

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Recently there was an article in Vanity Fair about Monsanto. It was, I think, a good article and one that strikes fairly close to home as I work about one half mile down the road from the Monsanto location discussed in the article. It is the same facility ...

Michael Pollan Interview

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I think we local St. Louis Food Bloggers forgot to point you to this brief New York times interview with Michael Pollan.