In defense of food. : an eater's manifesto

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The work In defense of food. : an eater's manifesto represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

In defense of food. : an eater's manifesto

Title remainder

an eater's manifesto

Statement of responsibility

Kikim Media ; producer and director, Michael Schwarz ; producer and telescript, Edward Gray ; executive producer, Kiki Kapany

Contributor

• Willett, Walter
• KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
• Kikim Media
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• Fischler, Claude
• German, J. Bruce
• Gray, Ted, (Edward)
• Hedge, Christopher
• Jacobs, David R.
• Mills, David E.
• Pollan, Michael
• Rozin, Paul, 1936-
• Schwarz, Michael, 1953-2019

Commentator

• Mills, David E.
• German, J. Bruce
• Rozin, Paul, 1936-
• Jacobs, David R.
• Fischler, Claude
• Willett, Walter

Composer

• Hedge, Christopher

Consultant

• Pollan, Michael

Film distributor

• PBS Distribution (Firm)

Narrator

• Pollan, Michael

Producer

• Gray, Ted, (Edward)

Production company

• Kikim Media
• KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)

Publisher

• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Screenwriter

• Gray, Ted, (Edward)

Television director

• Schwarz, Michael, 1953-2019

Television producer

• Schwarz, Michael, 1953-2019

Subject

• Diet in disease
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary television programs
• Educational television programs
• Food habits
• Food industry and trade
• Nonfiction television programs
• Nutrition
• Television adaptations

Genre

• Documentary television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Nonfiction television programs
• Educational television programs
• Television adaptations

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

""Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach"--

Member of

• In defense of food

Assigning source

From publisher description

Cataloging source

FPR

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Editors, Rhonda Collins, Gail Huddleson ; director of photography, Vicente Franco ; original score, Christopher Hedge
• Story consultant, Michael Pollan

Date time place

Originally produced in 2015 for KQED

Dewey number

612.3

Language note

In English with optional English subtitles (for the hearing impaired)

LC call number

RA784

LC item number

.I53 2016

PerformerNote

Narrator, Michael Pollan ; commentators, David Jacobs, Bruce German, David Mills, Walter Willett, Paul Rozin, Claude Fischler

Runtime

116

Technique

live action