Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan ( born February 6, 1955 Long Iceland ) is an American journalist. He is a professor at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California, Berkeley. His literary works include several non-fiction books and numerous articles and essays on food and human food culture.

The published in 2006 book The Omnivores Dilemma is the basis for Robert Kenner film Food, Inc.

Publications (selection)

• The Botany of Desire. 2001 The botany of desire. Four plants look at the world. Claassen, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-546-00309-8

• The Omnivores Dilemma. As the industry of food seized and why food was so complicated. Goldmann, Munich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-21933-9 Naked lunch, review by Patric Kuh in the Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2006
• Deconstructing Dinner, Review by David Kamp in the New York Times, April 23, 2006
• We Are What We ( Blindly ) Eat, review by John Carey in Business Week, May 7, 2006

• Means of life. A defense against the industrial food and the diet craze. Goldmann, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-21872-1

• 64 basic rules food. Do not eat anything that your grandmother would not have recognized as food. Goldmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-21950-6; expanded and illustrated edition: Eat anything that your grandmother would not have recognized as food. Golden rules for good nutrition. Kunstmann, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88897-828-9