Dartmouth Events

The George Link Jr. Environmental Awareness Lecture/Food Day Keynote

Michael Pollan

Monday, October 24, 2016
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Grand Ballroom, Hanover Inn
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Michael Pollan

Monday, October 24, 2016

7:00 PM (followed by a book signing hosted by the Norwich Bookstore)

Grand Ballroom, Hanover Inn

(doors open at 6:00 pm)

Pollan’s books about food, diet, and industrial agriculture — he is perhaps best known for 2006’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” — have made him an influential voice in America’s food fight over obesity, nutrition, and diabetes, and have made him revered by those who believe that something is fundamentally wrong with how we mass produce and prepare our meals.

Pollan's new book, “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation,” focuses on another aspect of American life we haven't thought enough about: the kitchen. In his hands, cooking is no longer a workaday chore: It's alchemy, it's revolutionary, and it's what makes us human. Though we've tried to shrink kitchen time with microwaves and minute rice, Pollan writes that cooking is "the single most important thing an ordinary person can do to reform the American food system"—and if history is any guide, we'll soon share his enthusiasm.

http://michaelpollan.com/

Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program, the George Link Jr. Endowment for Environmental Studies, the Office of the Provost, Dartmouth Dining Services, the Porter Fund for Sustainability in the Curriculum, and the Office of Sustainability at Dartmouth College.

Free and Open to the Public.

For more information, contact:
Kim Wind
603-646-2838

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.