{"id":95,"date":"2008-03-04T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-03-03T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T18:12:50","slug":"in-defense-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/in-defense-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/in-defense-of-food.gif?ssl=1\" title=\"In Defense of Food\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/in-defense-of-food.gif?w=1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"In Defense of Food\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Is your head spinning from all the conflicting studies about what you should or shouldn\u2019t eat?   Michael Pollan makes a case for eating simply in this, his follow up book to <em>The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma.<\/em>  He isn\u2019t concerned with calorie counting or faddish lists of do\u2019s and don\u2019ts, but rather promotes a balanced, reasonable and pleasurable approach to food.  Eat food.  Not too much.  Mostly plants.  With so many \u201cedible foodlike substances\u201d on the market, Pollan advocates eating whole foods our grandmothers would recognize rather than the processed foods that claim to be nutritious.  Fellow foodies will find this a refreshing book by a man who clearly loves good, real food.  This is a great read to inspire lots of shopping at the local Farmer&#8217;s Markets this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out Barbara Kingsolver&#8217;s <em>Animal, Vegetable, Miracle:  A Year of Food Life<\/em> for more ideas about how to eat local and fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to  Michael Pollan\u2019s talk given in Iowa City on WSUI radio\u2019s  <a href=\"http:\/\/wsui.uiowa.edu\/prairie_lights.htm\"><em>Live from Prairie Lights<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your head spinning from all the conflicting studies about what you should or shouldn\u2019t eat? Michael Pollan makes a case for eating simply in this, his follow up book to The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma. He isn\u2019t concerned with calorie counting or faddish lists of do\u2019s and don\u2019ts, but rather promotes<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/in-defense-of-food\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,101,8],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-podcasts","category-staff-picks","tag-foodie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}