Michael Pollan

Guide Note

Michael Pollan is a professor, journalist, lecturer, and author whose focus of interest is food culture with an emphasis on nutrition, agriculture and environmental issues. Pollan is a frequent essayist for The New York Times Magazine. He was the executive editor for Harper's magazine from 1983 - 1994.

Fast Facts

  1. Date of Birth: February 6, 1955
  2. Place of Birth: Long Island, New York, New York
  3. Father: Author Stephen Pollan
  4. Sister: Actress Tracy Pollan
  5. Brother-in-Law: Actor Michael J. Fox
  6. Spouse: Painter Judith Belzer
  7. Children: Isaac
  8. Education: Columbia University, Masters, English
  9. Teaches at University of California, Berkeley
  10. Featured: Best American Science Writing 2004
  11. Advocate for local, organic food

Academia

Michael Pollan has been the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Pollan is also the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism.

Awards

  1. John Burroughs Prize )(1997)
  2. Reuters-I.U.C.N. Global Award (2000)
  3. Humane Society of the United States Genesis Award (2003)
  4. James Beard Award (2003)

Michael Pollan Quotes

  1. Don't eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food.
  2. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
  3. A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
  4. In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
  5. My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

The Mahalo Top 7

  1. Official Site: Michael Pollan
  2. Wikipedia: Michael Pollan
  3. New York Times: "Unhappy Meals" (January 28, 2007)  MarcH: Great article on healthy eating!
  4. PBS: Interview: Michael Pollan
  5. Slate: "The Holy Church of Food: Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food" (December 31, 2007)
  6. Amazon.com: Michael Pollan Books
  7. YouTube Video: Michael Polland discuss his book, "In Defense of Food." (54:14)


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