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24 APRIL, 2013

How Cooking Civilized Us: Michael Pollan on Food as Social Glue and Anti-Corporate Activism

What the four elements have to do with corporate exploitation and the story arc of culinary craft.

15 FEBRUARY, 2012

Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion

Fantastic stop-motion film by Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle makes a refreshing case for sustainable food.

01 NOVEMBER, 2011

Maira Kalman Illustrates Michael Pollan’s Iconic Food Rules

A diet your grandmother would approve, why boredom isn’t edible, and what peas have to do with time travel.<

04 NOVEMBER, 2009

The Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan Explores Big Agriculture

Canabis, tulips and what a potato has to do with our sense of entitlement — an eye-opening PBS series about our relationship with food and flora.