University of Gastronomic Sciences Awards an Honorary Degree to Michael Pollan on Tuesday June 21 at 11 am in the Sala Rossa of the Agenzia di Pollenzo
Michael Pollan has been chosen as the recipient of an honorary degree because his published work is exemplary within the field of gastronomic sciences as it is understood holistically at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. His professional biography and writing about food are unique within the global media panorama. Pollan has embarked on original trajectories particularly in the quest for a fruitful interweaving between the analysis of food phenomena in an evolutionary key and a food activism imbued with fervent social tension and passion, redefining the very mission of food journalism.
Michael Pollan, the American journalist and essayist, is a professor of journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, California. He is the author of numerous books on food, including Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (Atlantic Monthly, 1991), The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (Random House, 2001), The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin, 2006), In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Penguin, 2008), Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (Penguin, 2009) and Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Penguin, 2013).
