The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

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English

Penguin
01 April 2006

History: specific events & topics; Society & Social Sciences; Anthropology; Dietetics & nutrition; Diets & dieting; Cookery, food & drink

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

By: Michael Pollan
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 731g
ISBN: 9781594200823
ISBN 10: 1594200823
Pages: 450
Publication Date: 01 April 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction: Our National Eating DisorderI Industrial Corn One: The Plant: Corn's Conquest Two: The Farm Three: The Elevator Four: The Feedlot: Making Meat Five: The Processing Plant: Making COmplex Foods Six: The Consumer: A Republic of Fat Seven: The Meal: Fast Food II Pastoral Grass Eight: All Flesh is Grass Nine: Big Organic Ten: Grass: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pasture Eleven: The Animals: Practicing Complexity' Twelve: Slaughter: In a Glass Abattoir Thirteen: The Market: ""Greetings from the Non-Barcode People"" Fourteen: The Meal: Grass-Fed III Personal The Forest: (Hunting and Catering) Fifteen: The Forager Sixteen: The Omnivore's Dilemma Seventeen: The Ethics of Eating Animals Eighteen: Hunting: The Meat Nineteen: Gathering: The Fungi Twenty: The Perfect Meal Acknowledgments Sources Index"

Reviews for The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

'When you can eat just about anything nature has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, ' Pollan writes in this supple and probing book. He gracefully navigates within these anxieties as he traces the origins of four meals--from a fast-food dinner to a hunter-gatherer feast--and makes us see, with remarkable clarity, exactly how what we eat affects both our bodies and the planet. Pollan is the perfect tour guide: his prose is incisive and alive, and pointed without being tendentious. In an uncommonly good year for American food writing, this is a book that stands out. --from The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2006