title: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
author:  Michael Pollan 
description: "Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience."---Frank Bruni, <i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />"A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave."--<i>The Washington Post</i><br /><br />"A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book."--JanetMaslin, <i>The New York Times</i><br /><br /><br />"<i>In Defense of Food</i> is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots."--<i>The Seattle Times</i>
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  > Lee Shores
  
  > Black Flag, Book 2
  
  > By Rachel Ford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Chapter One
  
  “Well,” Frank said, “how much longer is this going to take? I’m starved.”
  
  Dave scoffed at the Kudarian, whose appetite was something of a legend on the
  Black Flag. “You’re always starved.”
  
  Shrugging his massive shoulders, Frank nodded. “Maybe. But it doesn’t change
  the fact that I’m still starving now.”
  
  I laughed. “Hold on. Syd will be done soon.”
  
  “Not soon enough,” he sighed.
  
  This was Sydney’s debut in the kitchen, and I think we were all excited to see
  how it went. The battle bot-turned-domestic-robot had picked kitchen duty as
  one of several areas where he could contribute to ship efficiency. In my
  observations, Katherine, he’d told me, the galley is the source of eighty-
  three-point-three percent of all crew complaints. Food being a central
  component of both the cultural and gastronomic needs of most sentient races, I
  believe addressing this failure would contribute to the well-bei