Michael PollanRecommended Books
American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism (b. 1955)
Michael Kevin Pollan (; born February 6, 1955) is an American journalist, specializing in food, who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where in 2020 he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program. Pollan is best known for his books that explore the socio-cultural impacts o...
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“Taught me how to look at a landscape and see not just nature but history as well.”
“This is a very cool book about the intersections of food and history: A BiteSized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment: Stéphane Henaut, Jeni Mitchell: 9781620972519: Books”
“The most original observer of American politics in the second half of the 20th century.”
“A powerful piece of journalism disguised as a novel.”
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“Sentence by sentence, some of the most stimulating thoughts anywhere.”
“Little known, but the smartest book on drugs I know of.”
“The book, highly recommended: Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food Catherine Price”
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