Comments | soleta_nf: Tenets of an eater's manifesto

soleta_nf

Tenets of an eater's manifesto

Jan 12, 2009 12:51

"[I]n our time, cooking from scratch and growing any of your own food qualify as subversive acts."

- From Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, which is definitely the best book I have read in a long time. I highly encourage you all to read it. In the meantime, his tenets on healthy eating:

( Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. )

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corkdorkdan January 12 2009, 17:53:07 UTC

I think butter has been unfairly demonized in the past and food experts and cooks are coming back around to it now. I don't endorse the no-holds-barred Paula Deen "throw a stick in" method, but if you're just putting a small pat in your skillet, or spreading some on your toast, it's much better than some kind of "buttery spread" made of processed vegetables.

corkdorkdan January 12 2009, 17:48:50 UTC

A lot of this reminds me of the advice Alton Brown gave when I went to see a presentation of his. He recommended eating with family and neighbors, teaching kids to enjoy real food and not junk/fast food, buying locally. One key piece of advice that Alton gave and isn't represented here was "Eat More Lawyers." No lie, he put a slide up that only had those words on it ( ... )

djmrswhite January 12 2009, 18:47:45 UTC

i'm currently reading his other book 'the omnivore's dilemma'

pennywhistle January 13 2009, 01:25:40 UTC

You might also like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

I've not read either book, but I keep meaning to. AVM changed my mom's whole way of shopping.

st_aurafina January 13 2009, 03:44:17 UTC

As part of our "health at every size" lifestyle tweak a few years ago, my partner and I had a close examination of what we put in our mouths. Our lunch and evening meal is almost always cooked from scratch now, and we don't buy pre-prepared foods very often. That thing about shopping at the edges of the supermarket is true - you have to be very canny inside the supermarket - it's one big marketing trap. We've hunted down a good greengrocer, and our local butcher is amazingly good and no more expensive than meat in the supermarket (which apparently, is soaked in water to make it heavier, so you're actually getting less for your money). It's been really fascinating to watch our weekly supermarket shop get smaller and smaller over time ( ... )