Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 18, 2008|Volume 36, Number 26

Michael Pollan

Author of ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’
is the next Schlesinger Visiting Writer

Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” will visit the campus as the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer on Wednesday, April 23.

Pollan will give a reading and talk, “On The Plate and In the Garden: Nature Writing After Wilderness,” at 7 p.m. in Rm. 114, Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St. This event is free and open to the public. At 4 p.m. Pollan will be the guest at a master’s tea in Jonathan Edwards College, 100 Tower Parkway. The tea is open to members of the Yale community only.

Pollan is regarded as one of America’s leading writers on the interplay of nature and humanity. In his two most recent books, he has explored fundamental questions about the relations of humans to the food they consume. In “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” Pollan introduced readers to such mechanisms of food production as industrial feedlots and “wet mill” processing plants. Largely to offer guidance to perplexed readers of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Pollan wrote “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” a book that has as its opening line: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Pollan has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987 and, since 2003, the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pollan’s visit is sponsored by Jonathan Edwards College and the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund, established by Richard and Sheila Schlesinger in memory of their son.

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