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Michael Pollan''s In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well.

This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize.

By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn''t count. Don''t buy food where you''d buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy.

It''s time to fall in love with food again.

''Brings home the real wonder of eating food''
  Sunday Times

''Instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating ... Sense, at last''
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'If you're prone to pondering the nutritional advice we're spoon-fed by 'experts', this book is a very necessary antidote' Timeout 'In Defence of Food ... instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating' Daily Mail 'Read this witty book for a healthier life and diet' Times 'Eminently sensible' Evening Standard 'His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling' Washington Post

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 May 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141034720
      978-0141034720
      ISBN-10 0141034726
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      Health: Diets and nutrition

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Michael Pollan''s In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well.

      This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize.

      By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn''t count. Don''t buy food where you''d buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy.

      It''s time to fall in love with food again.

      ''Brings home the real wonder of eating food''
        Sunday Times

      ''Instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating ... Sense, at last''
      &

      Trade Review
      'If you're prone to pondering the nutritional advice we're spoon-fed by 'experts', this book is a very necessary antidote' Timeout 'In Defence of Food ... instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating' Daily Mail 'Read this witty book for a healthier life and diet' Times 'Eminently sensible' Evening Standard 'His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling' Washington Post

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