Cathy Erway, the author of The Art of Eating In is in Madison this week preparing meals with friends and spreading the word that we can benefit from getting in touch with where our food comes from and how it’s prepared. Cathy’s blog Not Eating Out in New York sports the tag line “Consuming Less, Eating More.” Sunday she’ll be cooking dinner with Madison’s Underground Food Collective and Monday night she’ll be the guest chef at the UW-Madison’s Slow Food Chapter.
A freelance writer, Cathy also blogs at the Huffington Post which this week is promoting “a week of eating in.” I met her this afternoon at a book signing at Rainbow Bookstore. Confession: in addition to buying an autographed copy of Cathy’s book, I also picked up Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, An Eater’s Manifesto and Who Rules America, Power Politics and Social Change by G. William Domhoff. The latter will of course provide food for thought.
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You’re just now getting to In Defense of Food??
Shame Frank. Save yourself some time and jump ahead to Food Rules (Pollen’s Cliff Notes of In Defense of Food). I recommend this despite the fact that Michael Pollen rejected my daughter’s application to the journalism department at Berkley. The prick!
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Michael Pollan and Alice Waters are a couple of my fave raves, but this worship of the gods and goddesses of the kitchen, for me, goes back to M.F.K. Fisher.
Have you seen the Meryl Streep movie? Julie and Julia, or something like that… me neither, but I intend too.
Here’s Pollan at his best… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNAICA8rE8
Nice Clip. Elaine has seen that lecture with minor variations four or five times and she steals his stuff for her talks all the time. I assume you’ve read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (also Pollan) or “The Botany of Desire” which I plan to read in preparation for having sex with a pitcher plant. As for “Julie and Julia”, cute film with right on Julia Child imitation by Meryl Streep right up there with Dan Akroyd. Book is better. More interesting to me is the fact that Julie was taking breaks from banging away at her blog to bang her ever so supportive husband’s best friend. Is this a common behavior among blogsters?
Okay. Now I’ve got to see it. No, I haven’t read the complete Pollan oeuvre. Another contemporary foodstar is Mark Bittman. Erway mentioned him as an inspiration and Beth talks about his NYT blog posts from time to time. I haven’t read him because I fear he eschews French fries and transfats and such.
Sorry , I wasn’t clear. There’s no sex in the book or the film. The story of Julie’s sordid affair is just now revealed in her newest book the tiltle of which escapes me. Something like, “How I mixed up my French cuisine with French Ticklers and got left with a lot of ‘esplaining to do”.