Books by Michael Pollan

A book which brilliantly twists our perception of nature by showing us nature's perspective of us.

The startling truth behind the food we consume in the twenty-first century

Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a wide variety of sources: mothers, grandmothers, nutritionists, anthropologists and ancient cultures among them. Whether at the supermarket, a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. The Omnivore's Dilemma, about the ethics and ecology of eating, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature and, most recently, In Defence of Food.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NEW NETFLIX SERIES 'It's not often that a life-changing book falls into one's lap ... Yet Michael Pollan's Cooked is one of them.' SundayTelegraph'This is a love song to old, slow kitchen skills at their delicious best' Kathryn Huges, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times Top Five Bestseller - Michael Pollan's uniquely enjoyable quest to understand the transformative magic of cookingMichael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth.Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that when it gets down to it, it also fundamentally shapes our lives.Filled with fascinating facts and curious, mouthwatering tales from cast of eccentrics, Cooked explores the deepest mysteries of how and why we cook.

'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday Telegraph This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.

Da LSD blev opdaget, troede forskerne, de stod på tærsklen af en psyko­logisk revolution. Resultaterne i behandlingen af psykiske lidelser var overvældende. Det forekom pludselig muligt at lodde dybden af bevidsthedens mysterier. Men i 1960’erne blev de psykedeliske stoffer koblet til ungdoms­oprøret, presset ud af universiteterne og politisk under jorden. I 40 år turde ingen tage forskningen op. Indtil et umage par – en Silicon Valley-ingeniør der bor i en skov, og en højt estimeret, ranglet professor med hang til meditation – i 2006 fik godkendt et studie på det prestigefyldte universitet Johns Hopkins. I dag er en stille, men gennemgribende revolution i gang. Studier viser at psilocybin kan hjælpe terminalt syge med at håndtere dødsangst. USA’s og EU’s lægemiddelagenturer finansierer store studier i psykedeliske stoffer fordi man håber de kan blive et værn mod den bølge af depressioner der truer med at slå ind over den vestlige verden. I London og København under­søger man stoffernes effekter på hjernen. I ‘Din foranderlige bevidsthed’ fortæller Michael Pollan historien om de psykedeliske stoffer. Han tager os på en rejse ind i en verden af psyko­loger, shamaner og svampejægere der beretter om exceptionelle oplevelser med dyb og forandrende effekt. Kigger med i hjernescanneren når forskerne viser hvordan det netværk i hjernen der er knyttet til vores selv, dæmpes. Og endelig prøver han (for første gang i en alder af næsten 60) stofferne selv.