The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals

Responsibility
Michael Pollan
Publication
New York : Penguin, 2007
Copyright notice
©2006
Physical description
460 p. ; 22 cm

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator
Pollan, Michael.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references p. [417]-435) and index
Contents
  • Our national eating disorder
  • I. 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
  • II. 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
  • III. Personal: the forest. The forager
  • The omnivore's dilemma
  • The ethics of eating animals
  • Hunting: the meat
  • Gathering: the fungi
  • The perfect meal
Summary
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century may determine our survival as a species.--From publisher description

Bibliographic information

Reprint/reissue date
2007
Original date
2006
Awards
Winner of James Beard Cookbook Award - Writings on Food 9781594200823 20220419 (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards. 9781594200823 20220419 (source: Nielsen Book Data)
ISBN
9780143038580
0143038583
1594200823
1594200823
9781594200823

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