Lynness: Books, books, books...

I've read a bunch of forgettable books lately, but the one I just finished yesterday, Nina Planck's Real Food, has me wanting to move to the country, or at least take notes and find the nearest farmer's market (which, happily, is not too far away- they just started one last week a few minutes away, but on Wednesdays only- I'm going to check it out tomorrow).  If you liked Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, or Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, then you'll like this.  A fair amount of science reporting, but very readable, enjoyable, and with possibly life-changing (or at least diet-changing, which changes your life a lot) information for the majority of people.  Eating like your grandparents cooked is healthy, lard and all- much better than all the things we've been told are helpful to eat for weight loss and heart protection.  Turns out (surprise!) health science isn't so much 'science' as politics and money.  (You weren't really surprised by that, were you?!)  Anyway, I'm sold.