By Peter Langley The Slow Food Movement held a four-day event in San Francisco during Labor Day weekend. Thousands of people paid the $65 admission to the Slow Food Nation's Taste Pavilions at Fort Mason.

By Shapin, Steven NUTRITION The Wisdom of''Mom'' Steven Shapin IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: An Eater's Manifesto. Michael Pollan. xii + 244 pp. The Penguin Press, 2008. $21.95. Some sciences have points of contact with common sense and lay concerns; others don't.

By Maria Garriga By Maria Garriga Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- Celebrity author and food philosopher Michael Pollan recently regaled an audience with stories of his obsession with gardening, his all-out war with a woodchuck and his quest for the perfect meal.

By Laura Tillman, The Brownsville Herald, Texas Mar. 30--Let's take a journey into the past: think back to your great-grandparents' generation and the foods that would find a home on their table.

By Arthur Raymond Deseret Morning News Author Michael Pollan admitted to a Salt Lake audience Thursday that his new book, if written 40 years ago, would have been deemed "the manifesto of a crackpot." On this day, however, Abravanel Hall is packed to the rafters with enthusiastic fans waiting to hear Pollan talk about his new tome, "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." The book is a follow-up to Pollan's 2006 mega-hit, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," that ended up on 2006 top-ten lists of both the New York Times and Washington Post.