This year’s selection was the New York Times bestseller “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” written by Michael Pollan; the well-known author of books and articles about the areas where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. This book is an attempt to explain the rise of "nutritionism" that has vastly complicated the lives of American eaters without doing anything for their health, except possibly making it worse.