FOOD RULES

Food Rules
by Michael Pollan

Of course Pollan is always full of information about health. He is a very thorough journalist and in this very small book, he highlights the most important food and eating facts in simple one line sentences then elaborates on a simple one page. My favorite quote, "The banquet is in the first bite. No other bite will taste as good as the first and every subsequent bite will progressively diminish in satisfaction." Basically we try to eat too much in an attempt to be satisfied and we never will.

FOOD OBSESSION

Julie & Julia
by Julie Powell

Julie was a fun writer. She has a dry sense of humor and an obsessive passion to her commitments. It is certainly not just a food novel of eating. It is her whole life for a year; her trials and tribulations with her goal to finish cooking and baking all those recipes. I do not know how she did it, but she was never bored. I enjoyed her contagious enthusiasm and appreciated the anxiety she had with her disappointments. It made me feel normal in my complex emotional roller coaster in relating with her, in these complex lives we live.