Michael Kevin Pollan (b.1955) is an American author, journalist, editor, campaigner, and journalism professor. He is best known internationally for championing natural food in the human diet and for his books that explore the socio-cultural impacts of food and the food industry, such as The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
Born to a Jewish family on Long Island, New York, Pollan received a B.A. in English from Bennington College (1977) and an M.A. in English from Columbia (1981.) He has been a freelance writer for New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Gourmet, Vogue, Travel + Leisure, Gardens Illustrated, The Nation, and Harper’s Magazine (also as executive editor.) He currently teaches journalism at the University of California-Berkeley.
Pollan’s bestselling books on food, agriculture, and gardening include The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006,) The Botany of Desire (2001,) In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008,) Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (2010,) and Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (2013.)
Pollan’s latest works are How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us (2018) about the history and future of psychedelic drugs and This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021) about opium, caffeine, and mescaline. He also wrote the introduction to his mother and sisters’ cookbook, Pollan Family Table (2014.)
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Autumn’s no season for defiance.
—Michael Pollan
Nature abhors a garden
—Michael Pollan
Topics: Gardening
There’s been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
—Michael Pollan
Topics: Wilderness
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