Article: 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:

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