The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

[KristiB]

The Omnivores Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals
By Michael Pollan

I'm almost finished with this fascinating book and want to recommend it. It's one of the best food/science/journalism books I've read in a long time. Since Fast Food Nation anyway... I like it because it delivers the facts without being alarmist. Well not too alarmist-I never thought a chapter about corn could startle me. We are "Children of the Corn".

The author traces the origins of the food chains that sustain us, industrial (fast food and processed food), organic, and food we forage ourselves. It's about how what we eat has changed and is continuing to change for better and *gulp* worse. He doesn't really point fingers so much as explain how it all came to be and what can be done about it.

I'm really careful about what I eat and am well aware all the alarmist stories about fast food, processed food, the beef industry etc etc etc, but Pollan explains why it's so hard to get away from things like High Fuctose Corn Syrup(the devil imo) which is in everything! And why organic isn't always what it purports to be.

Put it on you "to read" list. You won't be sorry.

[dolem]

I can't wait to read this book. I just finished "The botany of Desire" and I loved it. A very different way to look at common things.