The Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals
ISBN: 9781594200823 | 1594200823
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Pub. Date: 4/11/2006
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The bestselling author of "The Botany of Desire" explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't-which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as ... MORE
| Introduction: Our National Eating Disorder | p. 1 |
| Industrial Corn | |
| The Plant: Corn's Conquest | p. 15 |
| The Farm | p. 32 |
| The Elevator | p. 57 |
| The Feedlot: Making Meat | p. 65 |
| The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods | p. 85 |
| The Consumer: A Republic of Fat | p. 100 |
| The Meal: Fast Food | p. 109 |
| Pastoral Grass |
Michael Pollan is the author of three previous books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, and The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon. A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.
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