Pollan rubs me the wrong way in which everything he says about the way he eats is the way I try to eat, except he is such a smug SOB about it.. I find myself second-guessing everything I say about food -- when I talk about farmer's markets, when I talk about gardening, when I talk about eating locally, do I sound as self-righteous and judgmental as he does? He's like the dark mirror into some of the less pleasant parts of my own psyche. Kind of like my mother that way.

(Also, he's convinced that if you eat the way he does you will necessarily lose weight, and of course that is everyone's goal, right? And he also doesn't really confront the lack of scalability of his system. All the Polycarp farms in America are not going to do a very good job of feeding Pittsburgh -- and if you confront that problem, I think there something really interesting to talk about there. So I wish he confronted it.)