Michael Pollan says that instead of food, we're consuming "edible food-like substances." The Western diet has traded food for nutrients and common sense for confusion. The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. Thirty years of nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter. Learn what Pollan offers as a simple solution to eating well. Dr. Dean Ornish is founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito.

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Dr. Kessler, the controversial former head of the FDA who took on the big tobacco companies, now strikes out at the food industry in The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Isatiable American Appetite. Kessler reveals startling facts. Did you know that many foods are created to stimulate the appetite even after we're full and are engineered to literally melt in your mouth so that you'll eat faster and consume more calories? You may never look at restaurant chicken, often injected with sugar, salt and fat, the same way again.

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Paula Wolfert is widely acknowledged as one of the premier food writers in America and the "queen of Mediterranean cooking." She writes a quarterly column in Food & Wine, and is the author of seven cookbooks, several of which have remained in print for upwards of 30 years.  Patricia Untermann joins the JCCSF to host a special luncheon at her famed Hayes Street Grill celebrating Paula Wolfert's new book Mediterranean Clay Pot Coking: Traditional and Modern Recipes to Savor and Share.  Don't miss this rare foodie event!

"I’m not quite sure how it happened that I became a clay pot 'junkie'. Perhaps it was the different shapes and sizes, the colors and glazes, the myriad variations on primal shapes that attracted me. Or perhaps it was just that earthenware produced such great-tasting food. And that’s where I begin this book, by asserting a simple truth: Most food – and Mediterranean food in particular – tastes better cooked in clay." – Paula Wolfert, from MEDITERRANEAN CLAY POT COOKING



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