Apparently food writing as is big as Neil Young and Van Morrison: The Omnivore's Dilemma and Food Rules author Michael Pollan has been added to the 2010-11 UT Performing Arts calendar for "An Evening With Michael Pollan" on December 10th. No word on whether he's playing acoustic or with a backing band. In addition to speaking at giant auditoriums, Pollan has become the most recognizable face of the sustainable food movement, emphasizing support of local farmers, a decreased reliance on store-bought boxes of food products, and a generally more thoughtful approach to what one eats. His book The Botany Of Desire also led to a PBS documentary in 2009. more ›

We’ve all wondered what’s really in our fast-food hamburger or whether the snack cake we got out of the office machine has any ingredients found in nature. But Michael Pollan really, really wanted to know. So he traced the origin of four meals back to their source: a corn field, a grassy pasture, an industrial organic farm, and a forest. Along the way he made some surprising discoveries about what we eat and how we’ve come to have what he calls “a national eating disorder.” Pollan documented his journey to the center of the American food system in an immensely readable, thoroughly fascinating book The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. more ›

MONDAY [22] [film] Letters from the Other Side at Congregational Church of Austin (7pm, Free) [link] [film] Hands on a Hard Body at Austin Java (8pm, Free) [link] [film] Jarhead at Cafe Mundi (8pm, Free) [link] [film] True Stories at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) [link] [film] Salt of the Earth at MonkeyWrench Books (8pm, $5) [link] [film] Anime Monday at Ventana del Sol (7:30pm) [link] [tv] 24 Season Finale at Alamo Downtown (7pm, Free) [link]... more ›