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Michael Pollan’s Big Idea

September 26, 2009

What critical question has Pollan asked to cause such an uproar?

Shelved with: Food Systems|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: Carbon Cycle, Criticism, Food, food system, In Defense of Farmers, In Defense of Food, John Vrieze, Michael Pollan, Relationship, UW-Madison
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Poking a Sharp Stick at the Farm

September 24, 2009

As green-clad protesters filled the streets of New York City in protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech before the United Nations, a different set of Greens is planning to gather in Madison, Wisconsin this evening. They are farmers, and their grievance, they say, is that they have been misrepresented in Michael Pollan’s books. Pollan’s book on […]

Shelved with: Food Systems|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: Agriculture, Bill Bruins, Bill Marler, Context, Criticism, Food, Food politics, Laura Daniels, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Tom Still, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio
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Why Read about Food?

September 20, 2009

Culture, economy, health, family, spirituality. Food touches everything, draws everything in for us to savor, and so turns us outward to the world in which we participate.

Shelved with: Reading the Table
Tagged With: Food, Gabriel Zaid, Michael Pollan, Reading, The Omnivore's Dilemma
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What’s on Your Plate?

October 25, 2008

One of the things that has blessed us in our time in this part of Wisconsin has been the chance to live close to our food. It’s not that we sat farther from our plates in the city where I grew up, of course; it’s that we sat further away from the land that was our food’s native home.

Shelved with: Reading the Table|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Ann Vileisis, Blanchardville, Catherine Gund, Circle M Farm, Cities, Food, Movies, Rick Sanger, Seasons, Stories, Thomas A. Lyson, Troy Community Farm, Wisconsin
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