Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals

Name: Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals
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ISBN: 9781594200823

ISBN-10: 1594200823

ISBN-13: 9781594200823

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael Pollan

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The bestselling author of The Botany of Desireexplores 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 America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 4/11/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

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 prizewinning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" & "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder". Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife & son.



Introduction: Our National Eating Disorder



Industrial Corn



The Plant: Corn's Conquest



The Farm



The Elevator



The Feedlot: Making Meat



The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods



The Consumer: A Republic of Fat



The Meal: Fast Food



Pastoral Grass



All Flesh Is Grass



Big Organic



Grass: Thirteen 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



Personal The Forest



The Forager



The Omnivore's Dilemma



The Ethics of Eating Animals



Hunting: The Meat



Gathering: The Fungi



The Perfect Meal


Acknowledgments


Sources


Index