Michael Pollan
Autor/a de The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Sobre l'autor
Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" as well as a contributing editor at "Harper's" magazine. He is the author of two prize-winning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" and "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder." Pollan lives in mostra'n més Connecticut with his wife and son. (Publisher Provided) Michael Pollan was born in 1955 and raised on Long Island, NY. He received his B.A. in English from Bennington College in 1977 and his Masters, also in English, from Columbia University, in 1981. He is the author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, as well as 5 New York Times bestselling books: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World and Ho wto Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Michael Pollan
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction,… (2018) 2,079 exemplars
Food, Inc 19 exemplars
Cat Treat Recipes: Homemade Cat Treats, Natural Cat Treats and How to Make Cat Treats (2010) 3 exemplars
Non-Human Rights: Will Our Treatment of Animals Come to be Seen as Part of a Shameful Past? [article] 1 exemplars
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? 1 exemplars
A Model Summer 1 exemplars
"Town-Building Is No Mickey Mouse Operation," in The New York Times Magazine 14 Dec 1997- 56-63+ (PDF Copy) 1 exemplars
Essen Sie nichts, was Ihre Großmutter nicht als Essen erkannt hätte: Goldene Regeln für gute Ernährung 1 exemplars
Food, Inc. 2 1 exemplars
No One Cooks Here Anymore 1 exemplars
Unhappy Meals [article] 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (2017) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 2,455 exemplars
The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from around the World (2012) — Pròleg — 803 exemplars
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence (2013) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 202 exemplars
A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure, and Discovery on the Road (2013) — Col·laborador — 99 exemplars
My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Pollan, Michael
- Nom oficial
- Pollan, Michael Kevin
- Altres noms
- POLLAN, Michael
- Data de naixement
- 1955-02-06
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Educació
- Bennington College (B.A. | 1977)
Oxford University (Mansfield College)
Columbia University (M.A. | English | 1981) - Professions
- journalist
professor of journalism
activist
producer - Relacions
- Fox, Michael J. (brother-in-law)
Pollan, Stephen (father)
Pollan, Corky (mother)
Belzer, Judith (wife) - Organitzacions
- Harper's Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism - Premis i honors
- Knight Professor of Journalism (Berkeley)
James Beard Award (2007)
Borders Original Voices Award for Botany of Desire (2001)
Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism
Genesis Award from the American Humane Association
Orwell Award (2010) (mostra-les totes 8)
Nierenberg Prize (2014)
Washington University International Humanities Medal (2008) - Agent
- Ann Godoff
- Biografia breu
- Michale Pollan lives in the Bay Area with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer, and their son, Isaac.
Membres
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This Is Your Mind on Plants de Michael Pollan
As usual, Pollan is both enlightening and entertaining. But now I want to try mescalin.
I picked up The Botany of Desire at the library following txkimmers's recommendation. This is an incredibly cool set of four essays on plants and people: apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes.
Pollan does a great job turning around our usual view of "domesticated" plants. We usually see ourselves manipulating plants to serve our needs, making the plant just another tool. As he points out, plants aren't just hapless bystanders here. They have their own agenda, to reproduce!, and every plant that finds a way to get humans to help it along is using us, too.
There's some great stories here. I had no idea Johnny Appleseed was such a character, and so totally different from the image that our grade-school books promote. The exploration of Monsanto's genetically engineered potato -- how they make them, how they're grown, why they're attractive to the US market -- was both creepy and cool. Do I really want to be eating these? And how will I even know?… (més)
Pollan does a great job turning around our usual view of "domesticated" plants. We usually see ourselves manipulating plants to serve our needs, making the plant just another tool. As he points out, plants aren't just hapless bystanders here. They have their own agenda, to reproduce!, and every plant that finds a way to get humans to help it along is using us, too.
There's some great stories here. I had no idea Johnny Appleseed was such a character, and so totally different from the image that our grade-school books promote. The exploration of Monsanto's genetically engineered potato -- how they make them, how they're grown, why they're attractive to the US market -- was both creepy and cool. Do I really want to be eating these? And how will I even know?… (més)
Interesting, but perhaps I’m not the audience. He lays out a very clear argument against people appropriating sacred ritual for frivolous purposes and then proceeds to describe a travesty he attended without a shred of self consciousness. Luckily, this is toward the end .
Pollan follows food from origin to table through four different chains. Industrial/organic, grass fed and hunted/gathered. There is a lot I’d probably rather not know. He gives a fairly balanced look at the philosophical underpinnings of the act of eating
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 32
- També de
- 29
- Membres
- 37,819
- Popularitat
- #478
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 1,028
- ISBN
- 298
- Llengües
- 19
- Preferit
- 108