Table Talk: Michael Pollan Chats with Rod Dreher About How Food Culture can Transcend the Left-Right Divide (Interview‪)‬

Rod Dreher is the author of Crunchy Cons--the book and the Beliefnet blog--and an editorialist for the Dallas Morning News. On TAC's behalf, he recently interviewed Michael Pollan, the best-selling author of The Ominivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Pollan's work, like Dreher's, is about more than just eating well--it's also about the health of communities. Dreher's "Birkenstocked Burkeans"--localist libertarians like organic farmer Joel Salatin and young conservatives of many stripes--have increasingly taken an interest in Pollan's writing. So we brought together the original Crunchy Conservative and the defender of real food. Their conversation follows: DREHER: What kind of conservatives do you find are interested in your work about food culture?