Michael Pollan
Food journalist and author
Michael Pollan is an American journalist and author who writes about food, plants and psychedelics. He directs the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley.
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American Born 1955 in Long Island, United States
About Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, born in 1955, is an American journalist who specializes in food. He is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and also teaches at Harvard University. In 2020 he cofounded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, where he leads the public-education program. His books on food and plants include The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, all of them New York Times bestsellers. How to Change Your Mind and This Is Your Mind on Plants turn to the effects of drugs on society and consciousness. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.