Books recommended by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Books - 20 Recommendations to Read


Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan books - 20 recommended reads. Michael Pollan is one of the most prominent food writers and journalists alive who wries not about diet, losing weight or secret techniques to nutrients. He has a famous approach to slow food ad simple food. This approach is absolutely natural and backed by modern science. Michal Pollan books are bestsellers and often listed as the best to read if you want to change your mindset when it comes to food. Michael has a gift for seeing interconnections and presenting these often difficult-to-understand stories in a way that makes them interesting to the world. In his remarks, Pollan acknowledged Slow Food's role in preserving the sensory component of food culture while striving to improve the world around us. In an era in which people do not attach importance to food, considering food consumption a secondary rather than primary activity (when one eats or drinks while doing something else at the same time), maintaining the integrity of the sensual aspects of food is becoming increasingly rare. All this takes us further and further away from knowing what we eat. He is an extremely intelligent person, so the ability to look into his personal library is a rare opportunity. It is a list of books Michael Pollan recommends and admires. This is an ultimate 20 Michael Pollan favorite books. Check this out!
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The Truth about Food

David Katz's new book cuts through a lot of the BS plaguing nutritional claims. "The TRUTH about (truth and lies about) FOOD
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The Evolution of Beauty

Finally, Pollan recommends The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World by Richard Prum. Despite primarily focusing on the sexual selection of certain bird species, The Evolution of Beauty, Pollan says, is “the most exciting book [he’s] read recently.” The New York Times agrees; it named the book one of the best of 2017.
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Miserable Miracle

Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux, which describes a similar experimentation with mescaline, is the opposite of The Doors of Perception, according to Pollan. Though Michaux’s experience took place in the same year as Huxley’s peyote trials, Michaux recounts things completely differently. Pollan says, “to read those two books is to get a good sense of the two poles on how to describe [tripping].”
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The Healing Journey: Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy

So that you understand what a good guide looks like.
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On Drugs

Little known, but the smartest book on drugs I know of.
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Changes in the Land

Taught me how to look at a landscape and see not just nature but history as well.
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide

Actually has very good advice for people who want to guide, or are shopping for a guide.
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How to Dress an Egg

The perfect book for this moment when we're all cooking like crazy.
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Sexual Personae

A crazy and brilliant survey of Western literature.
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Home Economics

I’ve learned more from [this author] than anyone else about how best to engage with nature, and how to write a sturdy and pleasing English sentence.
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Dirt

If you're at all interested in cooking, or France, or great prose, you won't want to miss this book.
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The Gift of Good Land

I’ve learned more from [this author] than anyone else about how best to engage with nature, and how to write a sturdy and pleasing English sentence.
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Paper Lion

In retrospect, this beautifully written and hilarious narrative made me a journalist.
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Walden

For its bracing prose as much as anything else. I’ve been arguing with [the author] for most of my career.
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The Jungle

A powerful piece of journalism disguised as a novel.
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sentence by sentence, some of the most stimulating thoughts anywhere.
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Liberty Under Siege

The most original observer of American politics in the second half of the 20th century.
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The Odyssey

And not just because there are so many great barbecue scenes.
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The Doors Of Perception & Heaven And Hell

A very famous book about what were not then known as psychedelics.
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Acid Test

A good book on MDMA therapy.
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