An Eater's Manifesto

Contents

A N   E AT E R ’ S   M A N I F E S TO

Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

Do All Your Eating at a Table.

Eat Slowly.

Try Not to Eat Alone.

Have a Glass of Wine with Dinner.

Don’t Eat Anything Your Great Grandmother Wouldn’t Recognize as Food.

Avoid Food Products Containing Ingredients That are Unfamiliar, Unpronounceable or More than Five in Number.

Shop the Peripheries of the Supermarket and Stay out of the Middle.

Don’t Get Your Fuel from the Same Place Your Car Does.

Pay More, Eat Less.

Eat Well-grown Foods from Healthy Soils.

Eat Wild Foods When You Can.

Cook and, If You Can, Plant a Garden.
 

— Michael Pollan

Broadside published by Point Reyes Books on the occasion of Slow Food Nation, held in San Francisco, August 2008.
Text: Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, copyright 2008, used by permission of Penguin Press.
Art: Onions by David Goines, Copyright 1999. Printed Letterpress by Point Reyes Printing Co.