The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ebook
by Michael Pollan
Widely and rightly praise. he Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals a book that-I kid you . Michael Pollan’s beautifully written book could change that. He tears down the walls that separate us from what we eat, and forces us to be more responsible eaters.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a nonfiction book written by American author Michael Pollan published in 2006. In the book, Pollan asks the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. As omnivores, the most unselective eaters, humans are faced with a wide variety of food choices, resulting in a dilemma.
The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America. 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. -435) and index. The plant: corn's conquest - The farm - The grain elevator - The feedlot: making meat - The processing plant : making complex. 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.
Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. U N E S C O General History of Africa. Volume I. Methodology and African Prehistory.
In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a m. Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants.
Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way . Like the other books I've read from Pollan, this one does not disappoint
Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating. Like the other books I've read from Pollan, this one does not disappoint. Quite the opposite really. I learned so much from reading this masterpiece. If more people would read books. Michael Pollan, recently featured on Netflix in the four-part series Cooked, is the author of seven previous books, including Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at Berkeley.
Pollan approaches his mission not as an activist but as a naturalist: The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural . Pollan’s narrative strategy is simple: he traces four meals back to their ur-species.
Pollan approaches his mission not as an activist but as a naturalist: The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. All food, he points out, originates with plants, animals and fungi. ven the deathless Twinkie is constructed out o. ell, precisely what I don’t know offhand, but ultimately some sort of formerly living creature, . Pollan’s narrative strategy is simple: he traces four meals back to their ur-species
The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these . Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on.
A few facts and figures from The Omnivore's Dilemma:
Of the 38 ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, there are at least 13 that are derived from corn. 45 different menu items at Mcdonald’s are made from corn.
One in every three American children eats fast food every day.
One in every five American meals today is eaten in the car.
The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United States—more than we burn with our cars and more than any other industry consumes.
It takes ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate.
A single strawberry contains about five calories. To get that strawberry from a field in California to a plate on the east coast requires 435 calories of energy.
Industrial fertilizer and industrial pesticides both owe their existence to the conversion of the World War II munitions industry to civilian uses—nerve gases became pesticides, and ammonium nitrate explosives became nitrogen fertilizers.
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