Name: Michael Pollan - Deep Agriculture by The Long Now Foundation in podcasts
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Description: Michael Pollan describes his program to transform American agriculture as a "sun food agenda." He is the author of two influential books---In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto; and The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals . He is the director the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC-Berkeley.

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Michael Pollan, critically acclaimed author and journalist, sits down with writer Jack Hitt to discuss the former’s recent work and other topics related to food and cooking. Jul 15, 2013

"Michael Pollan ‘Raw’: A Conversation with Michael Pollan and Jack Hitt about cooking, eating, and writing”

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846147500,00.html

A uniquely enjoyable quest to understand the transformative magic of cooking - from Michael Pollan, bestselling author of In Defence of Food

In a culture of celebrity chefs and food reality shows, in countries which are crammed with fresh ingredients flown in from every corner of the Earth, we nonetheless year-on-year wade ever deeper into a great swamp of processed foods. The more we watch food on television, the less food we actually prepare and cook. 

Michael Pollan's marvellous new book is a clarion-call for the virtues and values of proper cooking - an essential, defining human activity which sits at the heart of our cultures, shapes family life and is in itself hugely enjoyable. Pollan recreates the transformative fundamentals of how we cook, building from the most basic principles: cooking with fire, cooking with water, cooking with air and cooking with earth. 

Cooked is an extremely funny and surprising plea to Pollan's readers to take control of their own fates and revel again in what should be a lifetime's engagement with the almost magical activity of making food. And it is, of course, about so much more - how cooking can transform both how we think about ourselves and about our families and friends.

Interview with Michael Pollan, author of Cooked

In this episode we are going to demonstrate how everything we know can all be explained with the help of scientific research and theories.  From the facts about dieting to the processes of cooking; from analysing the digital impact on society to the future of material science; and from alien invasions to the apocalypse, our incredible line-up of scientists, authors and books have it covered.

The Penguin Podcast: Science feat. Michael Pollan, Rick Yancey and Stephen Emmott

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Annotations and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/neil-gaiman-how-stories-last

Recorded at the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/) on June 9, 2015. 

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Michael Pollan describes his program to transform American agriculture as a "sun food agenda." He is the author of two influential books---In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto; and The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals . He is the director the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC-Berkeley.

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Michael Pollan - Deep Agriculture

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Michael Pollan - Deep Agriculture

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