Books and gardens

I just finished reading Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food.   There wasn't much to it beyond the ideas he'd already written in the NYTimes article which was going around in Jan '07, though I found hearing the points restated helpful at times.  I can't quite decide how I feel about his arguments.  The one that we don't fully understand nutrition and won't for a very long time is probably true, and the idea that we should be eating real, whole foods instead of processed gunk follows easily from that.  I'm not sure whether I buy his argument that the epidemic of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc are all due to diet, but this may be because I like seeing studies and numbers to convince me.  I also felt his repeated discussion of omega-3 fats was a bit faddish.

 I filled another entire yard waste bag with chopped pieces of rosebush this morning.  Chopping roses is an interestingly mixed activity.  The crocuses are starting to bloom, and the tulips are coming up.  Every little green shoot is exciting this time of year.