Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Author and Illustrator Bios
Michael Pollan is a major player and influence in the social and to an extent the political food movement towards local, healthy, and non processed food. He has an incredible following and presence among the food conscience people in the U.S. He is a journalist and investigator of all things related to food. He researches and uncovers where food comes from, what we should really be eating, and all the ways that the food industry has manipulated us into eating unhealthy things. His standing and credibility within the social food conscience community gives him incredible ethos sway with this book.
Maira Kalman is a painter and writter. She has written numerous childrens books and has 2 collections of journal entries dealing with the absuridty and happiness in life. She also does set and costume designs and appears in multiple art galleries. Pollan saught out Kalman for her frequent use of food in her work and her playful humorous outlook on life as well as the vibrate happy quality to her painting style when depicting political topics, showing the contradiction between what should be and what is. He states, " Maira doesn't take food too seriously, and is not politically correct about it in the least, yet at the same time she understands just how important food is in our everyday lives."