Michael Pollan

View of well ordered vegetables for sale in a supermarket. (Denise Taylor/Getty Images)

How to eat every day without consuming harmful chemicals

Kristin Lawless argues that ‘Big Food’ has obscured the fundamentals of healthy eating—and that some additives actually help cause obesity

Why food guru Michael Pollan decided to feed his head with psychedelic drugs

Pollan argues that hallucinogens have ‘enormous potential’ to treat depression and other mental illnesses

Hipsters are going hunting

They’ve already got the plaid shirts and deer antlers. Hunting is the next step.

The 100-mile mess

Is local food bad for the economy?

The Locavore’s Dilemma, a controversial new book by two Canadian academics, is attracting its fair share of criticism

double down

The Double Down: your move, America

COLBY COSH: “You would get the impression that it was lovingly constructed from scorpions and poison”