In today’s age and time, an age that he calls ‘An Age of Nutritionism’ in the book, it is not an exaggeration that the food that is cooked in our homes needs to be defended. The image is from my own instagram account and can be found here So hang in there for those, it was worth it. But those 20 pages are something that I found to a really interesting perspective on food. I felt that what was 20, may be 40 page manifesto about eating in moderation, mostly local and vegetarian was stuffed with two beanbag worth of fillers to make it sound impactful. But it ends up winding 200 pages filled with small portions of excellent food wisdom, some of which is pretty common today, and large portions of extremely boring, number crunching information, which I found so exhausting that I ended up not even bothering to fact check them: I just speed read them and moved on. Mostly plants.” It opens with this and it is also all that it has to offer to us. In a pill sized summary, the book tells us to ” Eat food. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
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