Edit: mods, can you merge the recent discussion with this thread?
Anyway, you know what's just as cheap as beans and bananas? Spam and canned corn. There's a Walmart in every town that sells it all, and the processed stuff tastes better.
What I love about Michael Pollan is also what I hate about Michael Pollan...he fetishizes garden grown veggies in a way that makes the reader feel like growing your own food is the solution. Unfortunately, most people don't have the space or the climate to make that their whole menu...so we're left to supplement at a grocery store that prices people out of actual whole foods because the government subsidizes less than whole foods. This is what I mean when I say that Michael Pollan's food ethics writing leaves me feeling a little hopeless.
Going to give Bittman a try. I see he has an active podcast where he interviews food industry people.
