Accidental champion
Michael Pollan, a journalist, reluctantly rides the wave as leader of the sustainable food movement. His fame, he says, is the timing of his books and his ability to focus public interest on the farm/food bill and its influence on our eating habits, on obesity and diabetes, and on the environment.
San Francisco Chronicle 2009-01-08
Categories: Authors, PEOPLE
Index: 900 Grayson, Alice Waters, Applebee's, Clean Air Act, Connecticut, Corky Pollan, Creekstone Natural Beef, CSA, dialysis, dietitians, epidemiologists, ethanol, farm policy, Farmer, Chef, Storyteller: Building New Food Chains, farmers' market, Feeding Frenzy, feedlot, feedlots, foodlike substances, fruits, gardening, Gourmet magazine, grains, grass-fed, Harper's Magazine, How to Make a Pond, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Isaac, Judith Belzer, local, mad cow, Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed, mercury, Michael J. Fox, Nancy Pelosi, National Geographic, nutritionism, nutritionist, orchid sex, organic, overfishing, PETA, Power Steer, Produce Politics, Rachel Carson, Slow Food, Stephen Pollan, sugar, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Silent Spring, Tracy Pollan, UC Berkeley, vegetables, What would Michael Pollan do?, Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns, Williams College