Mr. Pollan is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, published in January 2008 by The Penguin Press. His previous books include The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post.
His ideas further resonated with the American public after he published “Farmer in Cheif”–an open letter to the 2008 presidential candidates in the NY Times Magazine.
Your assignment is to listen to this interview of Pollan (OR watch the video below) and to type thorough notes (the notes will be submitted as homework). Be prepared to discuss the ideas presented in this interview. Also be prepared to connect Pollan’s thesis to the Populist Movement of the late 19th Century.