Food Rules

Summary Food Rules An Eater's Manual.

The writer cautions that “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual“ is not “antiscience,” and that he has looked for science to support many of his book’s claims. However, he has given primacy to the people on whom Americans relied before they started to look to nutritional experts. For the author, these people passed on the accumulated wisdom of tradition and culture. This means that traditional diets have been tested by evolutionary processes rather than scientific ones. Michael Pollan maintains that there is a great deal of wisdom stored in adages—enough to warrant being preserved and revived.