107: Michael Pollan Speaks Out

This week on Milk Street Radio, we talk with food writer Michael
Pollan—author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and star of the Netflix
series “Cooked.” “I don’t think people are quite aware how many
marketing messages for food they see in a day,” Pollan says. “The
total amount of money the government spends offering nutrition
advice, the food pyramid, the eat 5 servings a day, the you know
avoid trans-fats whatever it is, all that government spending which
is in the three hundred million or so range was less then the
marketing budget for one Pepsico, one product, one snack food, so
you know the information is so imbalanced that this idea of a
consumer democracy falls apart.” Dan Pashman of The Sporkful
podcast considers waiting for your food. To prepare for the
holidays, we walk listeners through our recipe for sticky toffee
pudding, and Portland cocktail expert Jeffery Morgenthaler prepares
egg nog for the 21st century. And, as always, Christopher Kimball
and Sara Moulton take your calls.

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