10 Questions for Michael Pollan

I am a recent grad living in an expensive city. How do you reconcile food ethics and cost?

Jennifer Kincaid

SAN FRANCISCO

No question--to eat healthy and to eat with some sense of environmental responsibility costs more than to eat badly. If you have any space at all, a $70 home garden can yield $600 of produce. That is the cheapest, most local, most nutritious produce you can have.

What do you think about the adage "It's not the food we eat; it's our eating habits"?

Bill Merkes

HEALDSBURG, CALIF.

The more I've studied this question, the more I realize it's not just the content of our diet; it's our eating life. Are we eating alone? Are we eating at tables? Are we snacking? All these things may turn out to matter a lot to our health. We stress over food--that can't be good for us either. One of the things I hope to do with this book is help people relax a little bit about food.

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