Authors@Google: Michael Pollan, on Food

I make no secret of my enjoyment of Michael Pollan's ideas on food. I seem to be talking about his book The Omnivore's Dilemma on at least a weekly basis. As such, I enjoyed listening to his talk as part of the Authors@Google series (which I hadn't herd of and am now youTube subscribed to it).

He talks about simple things you can to do make sure you're eating food and not processed food like stuff. It's worth the listen if you have an hour. One of the best take aways was from a question asked at the end (around 52 min). What do I do when I'm at a friends and am offered "bad" food when I want to eat healthy? Eat it, he says. And goes on to comment that a great "rule" is to eat bad food, or as might be termed banquet food, so long as you prepare it. He uses french fries as an example, chocolate candy is another great one.

Where's my organic farm delivery service?