The title itself peaks the interest of any peruser looking for a text about something relevant and useful to his or her life; “In Defense of Food”. They say don’t ever judge a book by it’s cover, but how could I, an avid food lover much like the millions of us out there, not have picked up this text whose front page displays a beautiful head of lettuce covered in three phrases that clearly defined the gist of the book. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. To say the least, Michael Pollan has done a pretty decent job of underlining these three definite rules in a mere two hundred and one pages. I decided to choose this book based on the subject matter which appealed to me but in the most unconventional way. Why exactly did food need to be
