The best selling nonfiction book at Four Seasons Books in February was Michael Pollan's Food Rules. In two previous bestsellers, The Omnivore's Dillema and In Defense of Food, Pollan explored the environmental and health problems inherent in our contemporary food system, not the least of which is that much of what ends up in the supermarket is not "real" food, but "food-like substances." In Food Rules, Pollan distills much of what he's learned about what we should eat into simple sensible rules presented in bite-sized easily digestible chapters. The book is only 112 pages long.

My good friends, John Case and John Reed, have been featuring excerpts from Food Rules on the morning radio program, Winners & Losers, on Shepherd University's WSHC 89.7. (Mon. thru Fri., 7:30 to 9:30) Four Seasons Books sponsors the program. Check it out.

Mike