There have been a lot of books lately on food, from Marion Nestle's "What to Eat" to Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" to Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life."
Now comes Nina Planck's "Real Food: What to Eat and Why." Planck, who created the first farmers markets in London and wrote "The Farmers' Market Cookbook," claims that old-fashioned foods aren't as bad as we've heard. Her book, she says, will "explain why traditional foods such as butter are healthy and industrial foods are not. You'll learn how butter, lard, beef, cheese, eggs, and other foods we've been eating for thousands of years got a bad rap - and why it's a bad rap."
The real problematic foods, "industrial foods," include trans fats, corn oil and sugar. (White flour and other refined carbohydrates are also bad.
Well, I've never given up butter but I definitely use more olive oil in my cooking. I still love my eggs, too. But I just may have to read what Planck says.
Food is the new obsession
Posted by vicki l.
There have been a lot of books lately on food, from Marion Nestle's "What to Eat" to Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" to Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life." Now comes Nina Planck's "Real Food: What to Eat and Why." Planck, who created the first farmers markets in London and wrote "The Farmers' Market Cookbook," claims that old-fashioned foods aren't as bad as we've heard. Her book, she says, will "explain why traditional foods such as butter are healthy and industrial foods are not. You'll learn how butter, lard, beef, cheese, eggs, and other foods we've been eating for thousands of years got a bad rap - and why it's a bad rap." The real problematic foods, "industrial foods," include trans fats, corn oil and sugar. (White flour and other refined carbohydrates are also bad. Well, I've never given up butter but I definitely use more olive oil in my cooking. I still love my eggs, too. But I just may have to read what Planck says.