An Evening With Michael Pollan
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Friday, December 10, 2010, 8:00 pm
Bass Concert Hall
$42/$38/$26
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Join us at 6:30 in the Bass Concert Hall lobby for the Farm Direct Showcase, featuring local growers, producers, and food artisans, non-profits and businesses.
Presented in partnership with Book People and Edible Austin Eat Local Week.
We invite you to spend a fascinating evening with bestselling author, journalist, and food activist Michael Pollan. For the past twenty years Pollan has written about the places the human and natural worlds intersect, challenging the way Americans think about eating.
Central Texans are increasingly moving toward healthful, locally produced, and sustainable food options, and Pollan has been at the front of the movement. In books such as The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, Pollan demonstrates how difficult it is to navigate today’s complex world of food production. The 2009 PBS two-hour documentary based on his book, The Botany of Desire, as well as his latest book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, has prompted a generation to consider rules for eating to live healthier and happier lives.
“In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan.” NEW YORK TIMES
Reviews, Resources, and More
A Stale Food Fight – The New York Times OP-ED by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser
The 36-Hour Dinner Party – The New York Times
Michael Pollan’s website
Edible Austin Eat Local Week is an annual, week-long celebration of local food in Central Texas and benefit for Urban Roots , a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture as a means to transform the lives of young people and to increase access to healthy food, December 3–11, 2010.
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Thanks for bringing Michael Pollan to Austin. It was great to see many UT students in the audience.
I also enjoyed Pollan’s lecture, though I wish he would have placed more emphasis on the bills floating in Congress, and how they affect farmer’s markets and the average consumer. I also have to wonder why he would accept sponsorship from a corporation that defies most of what he stands for (HEB). The monopoly it has in Texas resembles the monopoly that Monsanto holds. Other than those complaints, I quite enjoyed getting to know some of the farms located around Austin.
Michael was great, especially since he mentioned the organic pecans I delivered to him. My son( a UT student)also really enjoyed his lecture.
I enjoyed his lecture a great deal and thank you for hosting him and the evening. Even my wife found it more interesting than she thought it would be. As the director of a nutrition department, I even had to suffer being picked on a bit but his points were well taken and I certainly don’t think he was referring to those of us who work on the front lines with people who are already very ill.
I really enjoyed the Michael Pollan evening in Austin—but wondered why he had brought his Fiesta groceries in plastic bags? Seems like he’d have a few reusable ones around!
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