Saturday, 16 February 2008

Michael Pollan's Rules of the Real Food Revolution

  • "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."

  • "Avoid foods containing ingredients you can't pronounce."

  • "Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot."

  • "Avoid food products that carry health claims."

  • "Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle."

  • "Better yet, buy food somewhere else: the farmers' market or CSA."

  • "Pay more, eat less."

  • "Eat a wide variety of species."

  • "Eat food from animals that eat grass."

  • "Cook, and if you can, grow some of your own food."

  • "Eat meals and eat them only at tables."

  • "Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure."

    (In Defence of Food)