Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
How a liberal journalist entrenched a libertarian fantasy.
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- Julie Guthman's "Weighing In"
- Rachel Laudan's "Cooking and Empire"
- Heidi Zimmerman's "Caring for the Middle Class Soul"
- Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth
- Chris Newman’s Blog
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- Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.
- The USA lags behind other agricultural nations in banning harmful pesticides
- Governing food: Media, politics and pleasure
- Michael Pollan's Misguided Food Nostalgia
- A Plea for Culinary Modernism
- The French Terroir Strategy, and Culinary Modernism
- The Dark Side of Local
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.8 | Should we go? |
| 0:12.5 | Actually, hold my microphone. |
| 0:14.0 | Do it. Give us the old tagline. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that thinks that you should eat food, whatever you see fit. |
| 0:22.9 | Oh, fuck, I messed it up. |
| 0:24.9 | I want you lost it. You lost it. |
| 0:26.4 | Hang on, I'm going to try it again. Try it again. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi, everybody, and welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that wants you to eat food as much as you want, whatever you see fit. |
| 0:38.1 | God damn it. Why do I keep messing with you? |
| 0:40.8 | What are you going for? Are you trying to remember pollen? |
| 0:43.8 | No, I'm doing like our version of pollen. |
| 0:46.4 | His is the food not too much mostly plants. |
| 0:49.0 | Okay, okay. So you know his, but you're doing the Maintenance Phase one. |
| 0:51.3 | Right. Our version I would propose would be eat food, however much you need. How about that? |
| 0:58.7 | Oh, whatever you see fit. |
| 1:00.4 | And cyber bully your local influencer. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm up recording. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm Michael Hobbs. |
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