Monday, September 28, 2009

Omnivore's Solution: Michael Pollan's WSU Lyceum Presentation

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
On Wednesday September 23, Michael Pollan spoke at WSU about this quote, an eater's manifesto, from his book In Defense of Food.

Michael Pollan presentation titled "The Omnivore's Solution" is available via streamed video. (only available on the WSU campus): http://www.winona.edu/its/mediaservices/video_archive.asp

Michael Pollan is a New York Times best-selling author and food writer. He is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto , winner of the James Beard Award, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001); A Place of My Own (1997); and Second Nature (1991). Pollan appears in Food, Inc. a documentary which debuted in June, and New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

super sweet!