Each Friday in this space food writer Sarah Henry will ask a well-known, up-and-coming, or under-the-radar food aficionado about their favorite tastes in town, preferred food purveyors and other local culinary gems worth sharing with visitors and residents. Bestselling cookbook author Mollie Katzen kick-starts this new column. Mollie Katzen is perhaps best known for her […]
Michael Pollan
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A taste of justice
Think of agents for change in American eating habits, and Berkeley’s Alice Waters and Michael Pollan come immediately to mind. Indeed, eat-more-greens advocates can appear as white as Wonder Bread. On the menu at La Pena Cultural Center last night: some much-needed color in the conversation about good food matters. Visceral Feast, a work-in-progress performance […]
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Seal blubber and why low-fat diets make us fat
In case you missed Berkeleyite foodie extraordinaire Michael Pollan on Oprah yesterday, catch the interview on the Oprah website.
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Michael Pollan Talks Food Rules at Ferry Building
Literary editor Howard Junker may not like it but a sold-out crowd at the San Francisco Ferry Building ate up everything Michael Pollan had to say today about Eating Food. Mostly plants. Not too much. In case you missed it: This week the ornery editor of Zyzzyva blogged that “foodieism is the most dangerous threat […]
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Oprah and Michael on Jan. 27
Following Berkeleyside’s scoop revelation that Michael Pollan would be popping up on the Oprah show, we can confirm that his appearance will air on Wednesday January 27.
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Michael Pollan to talk food rules with Oprah
Berkeleyside exclusive: We have it on good authority — from the horse’s mouth so to speak — that Berkeley author and UC prof Michael Pollan will be appearing on the Oprah show in the very near future. Pollan was traveling to Chicago yesterday to tape the show where he will no doubt be discussing what […]
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Michael Pollan breezes through The Daily Show
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cMichael Pollanwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care CrisisDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis Didn’t our Michael do well on The Daily Show, promoting his “snack-size book” Food Rules? Clearly very at ease on television, he […]
