The Dorito Effect : The Surprising New Truth about Food and Flavor (CD-Audio)

from gypsysmom

Very interesting book about food, flavour and nutrition. Schatzker talks about how modern chicken doesn't taste like chicken and how bland tomatoes sold in supermarkets are and how processed food leaves us feeling unhappy and lethargic. He also ties the obesity epidemic to the lack of flavour in ...

from SheTreadsSoftly

The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker is a very highly recommended, well researched account that addresses the cause of the health crisis today as being a direct result of what we have done to our food.In an effort to increase size, and production, we have taken the natural flavor out of food. Our ...

from mdoris

What a fantastic book. I am a big "food interest" fan and this book is right up there with the best of them. It should be required reading by anyone who has any interest in food and what we are being "fed" by the food manufacturing industry in terms of fake flavours and how that is changing our e...

from Kristelh

This book is so good (the audio is very good, read by Chris Patton, won an earphones award). This book is about food and it is very interesting and based on real research. I had to get the book, because there is so much information and I wanted to gather some notes which isn't easy to do when lis...

from rivkat

Super interesting! Schatzker argues that salt, sugar, and fat are not exactly to blame for why processed food is so bad for us. After all, if you're just handed a glob of those three things, even in attractive proportions, you'll probably be disgusted. It's actually flavor that makes people keep ...