The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Hardcover Michael Pollan

from booklovercook

This book is about what should be a simple premise: knowing where your food comes from. Pollen traces the origins of the different types of food we eat. From the corn grown by the hundreds of acres that we eat as all manner of processed food to a beef steer from a feedlot to pre-washed bagged org...

from EPDad

This book changed the way I eat. I would recommend it to anyone that wants to learn more about how food ends up on your plate and what you can do to eat in a more healthy manner.

from Maura

Great book. Very well written. This really makes you think about where your food comes from, and why it matters.

from Clif

I'm satisfied to buy my food from the supermarket and not worry about where it came from. So the prospect of tracing the American human food chain to its origins seemed akin to taking bitter medicine for me. But I wanted to be a well informed world citizen so I started this book with some apprehe...

from TadAD

If you've read Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, this will have a very similar feel and, to some extent, content. I preferred this one, however. What Michael Pollan does is trace the production of three types of meals, one of them with two subtypes. The first is what you migh...