Michael Pollan, recently featured in the four-part Cooked series on Netflix, is the author of seven previous books including Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, all bestsellers in the New York Times. He is also the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at Berkeley, a longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.www.michaelpollan.com
