Michael Pollan

For a free country, we've got an awfully tyrannical food chain. Our current system of food production is really founded on a contempt for life; it pummels the planet and exploits migrant farm workers, defying the laws of both nature and...

With few supermarkets, city dwellers seeking fresh good grow their own.

It's easy to dismiss the growing trend of urban agriculture as a phenomenon for the affluent, given the lofty undertones of most writing on fresh and local food. However, as I tried to point out this New York...

Growing up in Brooklyn, our refrigerator was home to the imitation Idaho potato, sticks of Parkay, and the lone liter of Schweppes ginger ale. One summer, my mother and I subsisted on bags of potatoes cooked every which way one could fix a potato. We cut them into wedges and...

I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but this whole Earth Day thing is really just a front for a cabal of dirt-loving luddites determined to destroy life as we know it in America. Dig down below that crunchy granola...

Why has food become such a big issue? It is not discussed in the context of why we dump sheep in the sea to maintain prices or have mountains of butter and milk while many go hungry, but rather it is presented in an accusatory manner as though humans have...

While the Democratic debate has turned into an all-out popularity contest, and the most-discussed issues continue to be the economy, oil and war, there are two topics that none of the three candidates have really honed in on. They all spend a lot of time dancing around the perimeters, yet...

Well, of course, where else would you expect to find America's first feng shui'd fast food outlet? A McDonald's in the Los Angeles suburb of Hacienda Heights has opted to bag the golden arches' classic red, yellow, and plast-icky décor in favor of "leather seats,...

What's so bad about convenience food?, I asked Michael Pollan - his new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, has been the number one best-seller nationally for the last few weeks.

"I need to eat in a hurry," I told him, "so I can rush...

Q. What do tree huggers, animal lovers, nutrition experts, and Michael Pollan have in common?

A. They all want YOU to eat more plants and fewer animals.

This may be a tall order in our "where's the beef" culture, but with meat consumption fingered as a major factor in climate...

Howard Schultz knows a thing or two about creativity. Historically, he invented the idea of mass-market coffee houses. As CEO, he was the original architect of Starbucks' glory. But Starbucks has hit the wall: limp earnings, weakening stock price, declining quality. So early in January, after a few years languishing...