Michael Pollan's Food Rules

For those seeking sound advice about buying and eating food you need look no further than that listed below. Michael Pollan has been a keen advocate of the virtues extolled by Slow Food but his own advice adds so much more. His shortened version is - Eat Food, Mostly Vegetables, Not Too Much.



12 Short Food Rules, From Michael Pollan:

1. Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
2. Avoid foods containing ingredients you can’t pronounce.
3. Don’t eat anything that wouldn’t eventually rot.
4. Avoid food products that carry health claims.
5. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.
6. Better yet, buy food somewhere else: the farmer’s market.
7. Pay more, eat less.
8. Eat a wide diversity of species.
9. Eat food from animals that eat grass.
10. Cook and, if you can, grow some of your own food.
11. Eat meals and eat them only at tables.
12. Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

At the recent Conference in London Carlo Petrini founder of Slow Food suggested we should reunite our selves with the notion of eating with both"Love and Pleasure." I couldn't agree more.

Rod.