We took in an inspiring talk by Michael Pollan at UBC Farm. The event was superbly organized by Barbara-Jo of Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks. Michael was promoting the paperback release of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
His only Canadian stop!
Here’s a quote…

“But if real food — the sort of food our great grandmothers would recognize as food — stands in need of defense, from whom does it need defending? From the food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other. Both stand to gain much from widespread confusion about what to eat, a question that for most of human history people have been able to answer without expert help. Yet the professionalization of eating has failed to make Americans healthier. Thirty years of official nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter while ruining countless numbers of meals.”