How Cooking Can Change Your Life – Michael Pollan

Renowned activist and author Michael Pollan argues that cooking is one of the simplest and most important steps people can take to improve their family’s health, build communities, fix our broken food system, and break our growing dependence on corporations. The event was chaired by Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University London.

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  1. can't avoid unhealthy food when I get off work at 1:00 a.m., there's just no health food except fastfood at that time. and there's no energy to cook by myself too. really sad.

  2. can't avoid unhealthy food when I get off work at 1:00 a.m., there's just no health food except fastfood at that time. and there's no energy to cook by myself too. really sad.

  3. Processed foods are "sneaky". I had not thought to check the ingredients on the bottle of store bought ketchup in my frig. High Fructose Corn Syrup is the second ingredient (right after some form of processed tomatoes). KETCHUP! New item on to-do list: Learn to make my own ketchup using my own home-grown tomatoes.

  4. Cooked food is the death of all…fun and the best when you home cook it…but cooked food cuts one's life in half and the use of meat and dairy cause the most damage and destruction to the planet, wastes the most resources, and is more a more devastating contributor to global warming than the use of fossil fuels…he has not done his homework and is lost and unknowingly confusing people out of his misguided intellect.

  5. The idea of lawns is ridiculous, so too are manucured gardens and the insanity of a back yard filled with patios and pools and objects of sports. When you dig up all that nonsense and grow a vegetable garden you WILL eat healthier. There's just something wonderful about growing your own veg, taking care of it, harvesting it and enjoying it. If more people got away from this mindset of having the perfect lawn or yard and planted a garden, their food bills would go down as well as their waist lines.

  6. The best to keep healthy avoid frozen foods,cans,package,diary products baked products , sugary products, soft drinks and fried foods and bottom line is eat fresh vegetables, fruits, legumes and wholegrain.

  7. Nutritional Science is still very primitive. GOLD!!! 4:14

    And part of that reason is the suppression of the evidence discovered by those trying to patent a product (in the interest of making a buck). Freedom of Information Act has brought HUGE scads of such "covering up" to the surface (by those who are persistent enough to dig though all the literature).

  8. My every waking moment is spent either cooking or thinking about cooking. I usually dream about cooking as well. My father's father and my mother's mother were both restaurant owners and cooks, so I guess it's just in my genes. I am teaching my sons to cook also. I tell them that chances of finding a wife that can cook properly these days is dim, so their only hope for eating proper and delicious food is to cook it themselves.

  9. Before WWII we used technology to kill the German and Japanese fascists … and after the war we used that technology to kill our own people by using all the technology developed by the government privatized in any way that would addict us to buying from big corporations.

  10. Social engineering is different when it is by a corporation. I have direct power in what i choose to purchase, that is freedom. When the govt takes money from me by way of taxes and condemns me to its arbitrary edict- even if it doesnt effect me, that is the opposite of freedom.

  11. Weak men are responsible for feminism=feminism is responsible for the breakdown of the family, contraception, abortion, divorce, adultery, transgenderism, homosexuality AND the lack of a mother at home cooking for her family. The only winners are the fast food corporations and those who hate the family, which brings me back to weak men and feminists.

  12. I am so glad my grandparents were Italian. My mom was raised by immigrants with the classic Mediterranean diet, and I grew up thinking that that was just what one ate. I'm very, very lucky in that broccoli rabe and fava beans still seem like a perfectly normal meal.

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