Books I Have Read This Year

[redrose]

In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan - Good read, not too long, very interesting. He recognizes the work implicit in his recommendations. I recommend this book.

Comments

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Hey there! You and me, we're like twins.

I just realized this morning that there's high fructose corn syrup in my SALAD DRESSING. I'm just sayin'. And I'm not a big dressing person, so it's not THAT big a deal, just a little Catalina on the spinach at lunch. But out it goes.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

It was actually an early Valentine's Day present for hun, and one of the reasons was that I saw that you'd read it and thought it was good!

I took time off from French Women Don't Get Fat to read it, and I think they are complimentary books in a lot of ways. Both recommend eating at a table. Both recommend eating good food, and making it a sensual experience.

I would like to do that, but I have a hard time dealing with luxuriating in my food - it just seems wrong to me. I want to fuel my body efficiently, and this type of change in the food I eat, and my attitude toward food, seems like such a lot of work, and I already feel overstressed and overburdened by a lot of other stuff I want to do. A byproduct of our stressed out, type A society...

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Well, and a lot of it I just don't have time to do. In real life I'm a single mom with a sixty to eighty hour work week. So "how" I cook and eat? not always in my control. WHAT we eat, though, to a big extent, is. So it's definitely changing what I buy and what we eat. And then there are some things that I have to just accept are not great. A lot of change has to be better than none at all.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the time factor is my big misgiving, right now.