Michael Pollan's Webcast...

I know a number of you have read Michael Pollan's excellent food journalism: The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Those are just his two more recent and success books, but he contributes articles regularly to the New York Time Magazine (which is where I first read an article about "food miles" and that "big organics" might not be the answer intended by the back-to-the-land movement in the 1960s. This article became the impetus for The Omivore's Dilemma, and in essence was a sneak peak at the major trend that would explode two years later (hint!).

I found this webcast on the Internet and it has some excellent food writing insights and tips. It was taped just as he was finishing The Omnivore's Dilemma. It deals with food writing in general (the introduction is a bit rambling, but stick it out until Pollan takes the podium). The entire broadcast runs just over an hour, but you can pause it and take breaks, or make a big bowl of popcorn and sit down and watch the whole thing. Enjoy.

Michael Pollan's Writers at Work Webcast (2005)