How do we decide what to eat? Pleasure, a sense of community, and connecting to nature are all highly important aspects of eating that today are overlooked because of our reliance on the science of nutrition. In the third part of this four part video series, Michael Pollan encourages us to accept culture as the trustworthy guide in our approach to eating food.

View part one and part two of this four part series.

This video is in thanks to Ecotrust's partnership with a local film company that produces Cooking Up A Story, a show about real people and their special connections to food and sustainable living. Cooking Up A Story’s work is shot unscripted, and the stories are told in the voice of the subject.