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Michael Pollan’s Big Idea

September 26, 2009

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

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Shelved with: Food Systems|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: UW-Madison, Relationship, John Vrieze, In Defense of Food, In Defense of Farmers, food system, Criticism, Carbon Cycle, Michael Pollan, Food
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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 […]

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

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Shelved with: Reading the Table
Tagged With: Gabriel Zaid, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Reading, Michael Pollan, Food
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On Manifestoes

May 24, 2008

So here are some manifestos of the present day on books, education, faith, and civic life. Though their weight for good or ill, for much or little, is as yet unknown, these are some of the words that will shepherd us into our shared future.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Education|| Reading the Word|| Hearts & Minds|| Community & Time|| Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Writing, Sara Lloyd, Richard Harwood, Religion, Education, Ralph Ellison, Race, Politics, Michael Pollan, Manifesto, John Taylor Gatto, Homeschooling, History, Faith, Democracy, Danielle Allen, Clay Shirkey, Classics, Civil Rights, Book Publishing, Barack Obama, Aristotle
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The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More

May 22, 2008

A new map of food sources within a hundred miles of Madison, Wisconsin, shows kind of connection and sharing that will allow us as human societies to learn to be conscious of and take responsibility for the earthly places in which we live and move.

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Shelved with: The Reading Life|| Local Life
Tagged With: Food, Wisconsin, Networks, Michael Pollan, Localism, Local Food, Lifelong Learning, Kavi Turnbull, Joel Salatin, Education Infrastructure, Education, Digital Literacy, Deborah Madison, Data Visualization, Clay Shirkey, Circle M Market Farm, Barbara Kingslover
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