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Pollan’s food manifesto: Just ‘eat’

Senior Reporter
Published Friday, January 25, 2008

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Michael Pollan chose this mantra to begin his new book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.” For good measure, he slapped it on the cover, too.

It seems simple enough at first reading — isn’t everything we eat food? But Pollan distinguishes between yogurt and Go-gurt, between foods our grandmothers would recognize and the “foodlike products” now found on grocery store shelves.

In his earlier book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Pollan detailed the industrial processes that produce most of what Americans now eat, focusing on...

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Would your co-op like product from Aiki Farms n ledyard Ct?
I had been selling to the Willimantic co-op for the past eight years,

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