A Diet Tip to Devour
In this, the annual season of denial, we appreciate anyone who defines the word diet as “what you eat” instead of “what you shouldn’t eat.” Smart, intuitive food choices — don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food — were the focus of The Omnivore’s Dilemma author Michael Pollan’s discussion at the Free Library last week. In addition to reading from his new book In Defense of Food, which suggests a sensible diet of nothing but, well, food, Pollan offered the at-capacity crowd one diet guideline he thought of after penning this “eater’s manifesto”: “You can have as much fried chicken and French fires as you want — as long as you make them yourself,” Pollan said.
We agree completely — well, we might make the occasional exception when comes to Johnny Brenda’s totally craveable spuds.