In Defense of Food

A deep dive into In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Three sentences, seven words, are enough to answer a question that should never have become difficult. No other animal needs professional help deciding what to eat. Human beings long relied on a food culture, that is, a body of gestures, recipes and prohibitions handed down slowly, which encoded a nutritional wisdom whose mechanism nobody needed to understand. That transmission has broken: the way people eat now changes more than once a generation, so that a cook trained in the Jewish cooking of Eastern Europe can end her life on Crisco and margarine. Wha… Read the full summary and listen to more books on Synopsia: https://synopsia.app