{"id":12,"date":"2010-04-03T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2018-06-24T00:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T00:39:13","slug":"food-rules-an-eaters-manual-michael-pollan-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2010\/04\/food-rules-an-eaters-manual-michael-pollan-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Rules: An Eater&#8217;s Manual &#8211; Michael Pollan, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally frown on short essays published as overpriced books, and $11 is a little steep for what could easily have been a complete New York Times Magazine story (instead of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/10\/11\/magazine\/20091011-foodrules.html\">extract<\/a> they ran). But the format might really make more people take these rules seriously&#8212;and that could improve, even save, countless lives. The 64 rules are mostly common sense, expressed in a sticky way (#19: &#8220;If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don&#8217;t.&#8221;) I didn&#8217;t learn anything new, but I enjoyed it, and felt motivated to continue on the path I&#8217;ve been trying to walk for a few years (for example, avoiding anything with HFCs). As with self-help books, reading something I know again, especially if it&#8217;s expressed in a pithy or novel way, can be tremendously helpful. I especially liked #39, &#8220;Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself,&#8221; which is an idea I&#8217;d sort of stumbled on. The book is a nice size, attractively designed, and not at all intimidating; may it be a huge success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally frown on short essays published as overpriced books, and $11 is a little steep for what could easily have been a complete New York Times Magazine story (instead of the extract they ran). But the format might really make more people take these rules seriously&#8212;and that could improve, even save, countless lives. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}