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8 michael pollan FRI, FEB 2 | DELL HALL | 8PM "One Writer's Trip—From the Garden to the Plate and the Beyond" Author and journalist Michael Pollan has made it big by taking it back to basics. Plant basics, that is. He's talking a new kind of foodie fascination—a term that makes Pollan uncomfortable himself though applicable, nonetheless. It's simple, he says, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." is is Pollan's own creed that echoes throughout his five books about humans, food and the multitude of ways the two intersect—three of them New York Times bestsellers. You might recognize him from "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" or "e Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," or even "Cooked," now a popular Netflix series. For his February appearance in Austin, Pollan will strike an autobiographical tone, starting from his first oreau and Emerson- influenced horticultural disaster to the garden, the farm, the table and beyond, as he describes the give-and-take that is human engagement with the natural world, including how certain plants and fungi can affect our conscious state. What does it mean that a mushroom can occasion a mystical experience? What value do such experiences have for the individual, the culture, and the plants and fungi involved? e talk will include brief readings from several of Pollan's previous books and work in progress. ■ LONG CENTER PRESENTS 2017-2018 W I N T E R/S P R I N G S E A S O N 8 MICHAEL POLLAN (PHOTO BY FRAN COLLIN)

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