The omnivore's dilemma : the search for the perfect meal in a fast-food world / Michael Pollan.

ISBN:

9780747586753

Title:

Author:

Pollan, Michael.

Personal Author:

Pollan, Michael.

Publication Information:

London : Bloomsbury, 2006.

Physical Description:

450 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Our national eating disorder -- I. INDUSTRIAL: CORN. The plant: corn's conquest -- The farm -- The grain elevator -- The feedlot: making meat -- The processing plant : making complex foods -- The consumer: a republic of fat -- The meal: fast food -- II. PASTORAL: GRASS. All flesh is grass -- Big organic -- Grass: 13 ways of looking at a pasture -- The animals: practicing complexity -- Slaughter: ;in a glass abattoir -- The market: Greetings from the non-barcode people -- The meal: grass-fed -- III. PERSONAL: THE FOREST. The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal.

Subject Term:

Food habits.

Food preferences.

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2006

Publication Information:

London : Bloomsbury, 2006.

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Summary

We are indeed what we eat - and what we eat remakes the world. But we are only just beginning to recognise the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's eye-opening exploration of the American food industry. His astonishing findings will resonate enormously for people everywhere who care about what they put on their plate.

The Omnivore's Dilemma brings a fresh perspective to the simple yet momentous question 'What shall we have for dinner?', which is overwhelming for any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the 'omnivore's dilemma'. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. Dealing with each of the food chains that sustain us (industrialised food, alternative or 'organic' food and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering or gardening) Pollan follows each food chain through from the ground to sitting down to a meal, tracing the provenance of everything consumed.

The Omnivore's Dilemma is an uncompromisingly realised, eloquent, philosophical and absorbing book for anyone who thinks about where their food comes from.

Author Notes

Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" as well as a contributing editor at "Harper's" magazine. He is the author of two prize-winning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" and "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder."

Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife and son. (Publisher Provided)