{"id":1120,"date":"2014-11-04T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2014-11-04T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T00:57:08","slug":"ive-been-pollan-ated-eric-garza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve been Pollan-ated\u2026 | Eric Garza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howericlives.com\/ive-been-pollan-ated\/\">I\u2019ve been Pollan-ated\u2026 | Eric Garza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; color: #333333; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Each year the University of Vermont chooses a book that all first year undergraduates are expected to read.\u00a0This year they chose\u00a0<em style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation<\/em>, by Michael Pollan, a book\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #666600; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"From fire to fermentation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howericlives.com\/cooked-by-michael-pollan\/\">I reviewed a while back<\/a>. If Michael Pollan is anything, he\u2019s certainly an excellent storyteller. As part of the curricula associated with\u00a0<em style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Cooked<\/em>, several groups teamed up to bring Michael Pollan to campus for a question and answer session and book signing this past Thursday evening, and I was lucky enough to attend the event.\u00a0<span id=\"more-2060\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; color: #333333; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The questions asked of Pollan were grouped broadly in three categories, the first of which centered around the author\u2019s process of writing<em style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Cooked<\/em>. \u00a0The second group centered around a central theme of Pollan\u2019s writing, humanity\u2019s relationship with nature.\u00a0Although I\u2019ve read a few of Pollan\u2019s books I hadn\u2019t caught this as a central theme, but in hindsight it makes perfect sense. Food remains, for many people,\u00a0their last remaining connection to that abstract, distant thing called \u2018nature\u2019. Eating represents the process by which we take nature, which is \u2018out there\u2019, and turn it into us. The precise methods with\u00a0which we do this define us, as individuals and as a species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em; color: #333333; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been Pollan-ated\u2026 | Eric Garza. Each year the University of Vermont chooses a book that all first year undergraduates are expected to read.\u00a0This year they chose\u00a0Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, by Michael Pollan, a book\u00a0I reviewed a while back. If Michael Pollan is anything, he\u2019s certainly an excellent storyteller. As part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,165,319,520,654],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-michael-pollan","tag-processed-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}