Food Rules, Michael Pollan
Food Rules, Michael Pollan
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Food Rules
An Eater's Manual

Author: Michael Pollan

Narrator: Michael Pollan

Unabridged: 1 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/14/2020


Synopsis

#1 New York Times Bestseller

"A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf." —Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times

A definitive compendium of food wisdom

Eating doesn’t have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan’s trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, one per page, accompanied by a concise explanation. It’s an easy-to-use guide that draws from a variety of traditions, suggesting how different cultures through the ages have arrived at the same enduring wisdom about food. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this is the perfect guide for anyone who ever wondered, “What should I eat?”

"In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan." —Jane Brody, The New York Times

"It doesn't get much easier than this. Each page has a simple rule, sometimes with a short explanation, sometimes without, that promotes Pollan's back-to-the-basics-of-food (and-food-enjoyment) philosophy." —The Los Angeles Times

About The Author

Michael Pollan is the author of seven previous books, including CookedFood RulesIn Defense of FoodThe Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He's also the author of the audiobook Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Patricia on March 01, 2010

A tiny book—I read it in the span of the bus ride downtown to my mother’s house. I wouldn’t pay the $11.00 price for this book, but it was fun to get from the library and read. Some of my favorite rules: Avoid foods you see advertised on television Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans It’s not......more

Goodreads review by Dave on June 10, 2024

So I get the feeling everyone in the world that still reads newspapers in some form knows Michael Pollan's work in some form. He's a journalist who started to make food his thing, wrote the heady Omnivore's Dilemma (that I got for last birthday but since I had not read it and the wife had, she gave......more

Goodreads review by Meredith on January 14, 2022

Michael Pollan stuffed quite a lot of harmful and restrictive language into this seemingly quaint little guide to eating. He is an author and thinker that I have admired for some time but this rule book perpetuates fatphobic ideas that I have been actively retraining my brain against. He doesn’t shy......more

Goodreads review by Lynne on July 06, 2013

I have had “The Protein Power Lifeplan” on one of my kitchen shelves for over ten years now and I read it regularly as it gives sound advice on how to eat healthily. However, when I saw “Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual” and read the review, I knew that I had to have this and purchased it on a whim yes......more

Goodreads review by Phu on March 01, 2023

47. Ăn khi bạn đói, đừng ăn khi bạn chán. Câu trên đúng với tình trạng trước của mình (hiện tại vẫn thế nhưng biết tiết chế hơn). Food Rules: Ăn uống đúng cách - Bộ quy tắc ẩm thực lành mạnh là cuốn sách tổng hợp những quy tắc về ăn uống một cách đơn giản và dễ hiểu, để ta hiểu rằng ăn uống......more


Quotes

"In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan." —Jane Brody, The New York Times 

"The most sensible diet plan ever? We think it's the one that Michael Pollan outlined a few years ago: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” So we're happy that in his little new book, Food Rules, Pollan offers more common-sense rules for eating: 64 of them, in fact, all thought-provoking and some laugh-out-loud funny." The Houston Chronicle

"It doesn't get much easier than this. Each page has a simple rule, sometimes with a short explanation, sometimes without, that promotes Pollan's back-to-the-basics-of-food (and-food-enjoyment) philosophy." The Los Angeles Times
 
"A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf."  —Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times