Food author Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dillema and In Defense of Food, is appearing at the Free Library tonight. For a sneak peak of what Pollan will discuss, check out this interview at Epicurious. Here’s a hint: he’s bitter.
breakfast has been the site of so much processing for the reasons you’re talking about, the convenience question. It’s really the pioneering meal for food science, with breakfast cereal being the big first step, and a continual ratcheting up of the innovations. I don’t know if you’ve looked at a cereal aisle lately, but the latest is the breakfast cereal “straw,” a strawlike thing made out of cereal material, with a layer of white “milk” on the inside. Kids are supposed to suck out the “milk” and then eat the “straw.” So you don’t even need a spoon.
CH: That’s disgusting.
MP: It really is. I haven’t tried one yet. But I think we’re real suckers for innovation at breakfast, because we’re kind of in a fog and don’t want to have to think. Also, a lot of kids eat in the car or on the bus on the way to school. I talk about the percentage of our eating that goes on in cars, and a lot of that is breakfast.
Michael Pollan [Free Library]
Keep It Real [Epicurious]
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