Subject: Michael Pollan

• Review Preview: Pho Long

  November 29, 2006

• Michael Pollan on Sustainability

  December 17, 2007

• Reviews of New Michael Pollan Book

  January 3, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 1.17

  January 17, 2008

• New York Times Still on the Mercury Beat

  January 30, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Monday, 2.4

  February 4, 2008

• Bookplates: In Defense of Food

  February 7, 2008

• Plant Power: Local Harvest Café embodies a welcome new concept in sustainable chowing-down

  April 1, 2009

• The New York Times Magazine's Food Issue

  October 13, 2008

• Michael Pollan at Washington University This Afternoon

  Sorry for the short notice, but I learned this moments ago: Author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food) will be honored with the Washington University International Humanities Prize today at 4:30 p.m. The ceremony is at Graham Chapel. Afterward there will be refreshments and an opportunity for you to have books signed. - Ian Froeb

  November 20, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 12.18

  In today's news: Michael Pollan on Tom Vilsack, the sweetener Truvia and a victim of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

  December 18, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Friday, 1.23

  In today's news: the salmonella outbreak, country-of-labeling origin hits a road block, Tom Vilsack on healthy eating and Chinese New Year food shortages.

  January 23, 2009

• Taqueria el Jalapeño Review Prompts P.R. Blitz

  Wikimedia CommonsSilly me, thinking I could share my desert-island fantasies without any consequences.In last week's review of Taqueria el Jalapeño, I wrote the following:It won't surprise regular readers of this column to learn that if I were stranded on a desert island, I'd want the only restaurant there to be a taqueria. I'd set up shelter within walking distance of both the surf and the food and grow fat and happy on tacos al pastor, tortas the size of my head and Mexican Coca-Cola -- the r

  March 3, 2009

• Stocking Stuffing: Ian jots down his 2008 Christmas wish list for the local food scene

  December 24, 2008

• The Pope of Pork: In tiny towns across Missouri, old-school hog farming stages a comeback — and at tables across the nation, diners rejoice

  November 26, 2008

• Eat Food, Not "Food"

  February 13, 2008

• Pho Real

  November 29, 2006

• Pray Tell

  August 16, 2006

• St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 5.9-5.15

  Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Welcome a new blog to our merry band, Becky and the Beanstock. Go check it out.Sauce: An interview with Michael Pollan.Sounding My Barbaric Gulp: Kelly roasts her haul of farmers' market radishes.STL Hops: Mike has news of the new weekly cask ale event at the Stable.Sugar, Spice & More Things Nice: Rach has a recipe for homemade salsa.St. Louis Eats & Drinks: The Pollacks -- besides adding movie and stage reviews to their blog -- vi

  May 15, 2009

• FoodWire: Michael Pollan in St. Louis Tonight

  Michael Pollan, author of the seminal books The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, is speaking and signing books this evening at St. Louis County Library headquarters (1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard). Doors open at 6 p.m., the program begins at 7. On his Twitter feed, STL Bites' Bill Burge reports that a crowd of at least 400 is expected, so you'll want to arrive early.No word on whether Pollan will sign body parts -- bring a copy of one of his books, just in case.

  May 22, 2009

• Monsanto to Food, Inc.: Drop Dead

  flickr.com/photos/jonbauerSchlosserFood, Inc., the new expos é -documentary about the food industry, doesn't open at the Tivoli until June 26, but it's already generated a fair amount of controversy in St. Louis.Co-produced by Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation fame and starring Schlosser and Michael Pollan of The Omnivore's Dilemma super-fame, Food, Inc. demonizes the "highly mechanized underbelly" of commercially-produced food. Monsanto, the west county-based agricultural company, emerges

  June 11, 2009

• Monsanto to Food, Inc.: Drop Dead

  flickr.com/photos/jonbauerSchlosserFood, Inc., the new expos é -documentary about the food industry, doesn't open at the Tivoli until June 26, but it's already generated a fair amount of controversy in St. Louis.Co-produced by Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation fame and starring Schlosser and Michael Pollan of The Omnivore's Dilemma super-fame, Food, Inc. demonizes the "highly mechanized underbelly" of commercially-produced food. Monsanto, the west county-based agricultural company, emerge

  June 11, 2009

• Scenes From A Food, Inc. Screening

  foodincmovie.comThe line outside the Tivoli Theatre Wednesday night was nearly as long as the line for free burritos when the Delmar Loop Chipotle opened last year, except instead of hungry students, it was comprised (or, rather, also comprised) of earnest liberals, all clutching in their sweaty hands vouchers from the Landmark Theatres Film Club inviting them to a free screening of the new documentary Food, Inc.A man on a girl's bike rode up to the brick wall beside the parking lot, stared entr

  June 25, 2009

• Where's the Beef?: Has Allison Burgess created faux food, fad food — or a groundbreaking meat substitute?

  July 1, 2009

• Cooking for Your Cat: In Which Bess Meets Her Match, or The Carnivore's Dilemma

  RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.One of the hazards of my job is forced immersion -- some might say obsession -- in a particular subject for months at time. Pick-up artists, education, death, comic books, vampires...the books and articles pile up. (Sometimes I wonder if Homeland Security has a file based on my borrowings from the University City Public Library and, if so, what conclusions they have drawn about me.)Bess is usually the primary bene

  July 2, 2009

• The Best of Gut Check: Hecho en Mexico

  While Gut Check is on vacation, enjoy highlights from the past two years. Every few years I fail miserably to overcome my adolescent's addiction to Coca-Cola. I make it a few weeks or months -- but then, usually without thinking about it, I'm dropping fifty cents into the office soda machine or snagging a Coke from the little fridge at the grocery store's checkout line.(I should make clear here I'm talking about regular Coke. I can't handle Diet Coke. And all those flavored Cokes are an abominat

  July 6, 2009

• New Michael Pollan Article in Times Magazine

  Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) has an epic new article in this weekend's edition of the New York Times magazine in which he tackles the decline of cooking in America and the rise of food-related television programming. Well worth your time. Here's the essential question he asks:How is it that we are so eager to watch other people browning beef cubes on screen but so much less eager to brown them ourselves? For the rise of Julia Child as a figure

  July 31, 2009

• The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 9.2

  ​ What's wrong with Sheila Lukins' obituary? Lots of things. (The NYTPicker.com)Michael Pollan has his say on Whole Foods boycotts. (Newmajority.com)Illinois' new alcohol tax hike is in effect. (Belleville News-Democrat)Optimistic restaurateurs opting for smaller venues and menus in new ventures. Others fight recession by getting kid-friendly. (Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal)What's better than a New York City hot dog? Lots of things. (The New Yorker)

  September 2, 2009

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9.10

  ​ President Obama endorses higher taxes on soda to help fund food stamps. (Kansas City Star)New FDA rule and reporting systems aims for contaminated food to be reported faster. (The Boston Globe)September 21 issue of The Nation focuses on food, with writings by Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. (Huffingtonpost.com)Politicians with no sense of humor give spotted dick a name change. (BBC)Archway Cookies live! (Slashfood.com)

  September 10, 2009

• Reminder: Joel Salatin at Webster Tonight

  A reminder: Farmer Joel Salatin will speak at Webster University tonight at 7:30 p.m. Salatin heads Polyface, a Virginia farm whose "beyond-organic" practices have been featured in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and the recent documentary Food, Inc. His lecture at Webster is titled "Ballet in the Pasture." Admission is free, but seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Doors open at 7 p.m.

  October 5, 2009

• The Morning Brew: Friday, 10.9

  ​ Fast food moratorium probably won't solve obesity problem, even as Burger King redesigns to bring people closer. (Los Angeles Times, Advertising Age)Michael Pollan's readers share their eating rules. (The New York Times)New York Times disses southern fried chicken. Civil War II commences. Meanwhile, Jewish delis are becoming scarce. (The New York Times)Law enforcement budget cuts good for the moonshine trade. (Associated Press)

  October 9, 2009

• St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 11.7-11.13

  Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. Sounding My Barbaric Gulp: Kelly experienced the pain in the ass of French cooking. Iron Stef: Stef hung out with the Forking Fantastic authors.Show Me Vegan: Lisa reviewed Eating Animals.

  November 13, 2009