The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own.

Pollan co-starred in the documentary Food Inc. It is divided into three sections further explicating Pollan's principles of "Eat food. Foer criticizes Pollan's argument regarding table-fellowship.

". A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual.