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Greg Turner

In Defense of Food: NPR interview with Michael Pollan about "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

January 15, 2008 9:13am

One thing crucial in the "would your grandmother recognize it?" argument is the natural ingredients that went into making the biscuits and fried chicken, etc. People have no idea how negatively high fructose corn syrup can affect a body. I say, eat. Eat biscuits. Eat bacon. Eat green beans slathered in butter. But make sure it's butter. Make sure the biscuits are those you made yourself with organic ingredients (and buy local when you can). And if you go on a salad kick, make your own dressings. They're not hard, and the ones you make from pantry ingredients won't contain all the yucky stuff that's in the store-bought brands.

Spiral-cut fried whole potato: Korean junk-food

September 28, 2007 6:00am

Some people might be a bit concerned with the healthiness of the snack. But I'm heartened. It's a whole potato, spiral cut and fried. My guess would be that it's dusted in front of you, and if you picked salt and pepper, you wouldn't get the weird hydrogenated oils that are in cheesey sprinklings. Whole, fresh food simply prepared can't be beat. Sure, you might be better off with a carrot, but you'd be worse off with McDonald's fries. And I'd guess the tornado potato gives fries a solid run for their money in the taste department.

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