The Omnivore's Dilemma
By Michael Pollan
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780143038580, 464pp.)
Publication Date: September 2007
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Hardcover (May 2006)
Categories: History, Nutrition, Anthropology - General
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Spring/Summer '09 Reading Group ListA New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us--whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed--he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.
Michael Pollan is the author of three previous books, including The Botany of Desire, a New York Times bestseller. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
?An eater?s manifesto ... [Pollan?s] cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling. Be careful of your dinner!?
?The Washington Post
?Thoughtful, engrossing ... You?re not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from.?
?The New York Times Book Review
?Michael Pollan has perfected a tone?one of gleeful irony and barely suppressed outrage?and a way of inserting himself into a narrative so that a subject comes alive through what he?s feeling and thinking. He is a master at drawing back to reveal the greater issues.?
?Los Angeles Times
?If you ever thought ?what?s for dinner? was a simple question, you?ll change your mind after reading Pollan?s searing indictment of today?s food industry?and his glimpse of some inspiring alternatives.... I just loved this book so much I didn?t want it to end.?
?The Seattle Times
An eater?s manifesto . . . [Pollan?s] cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling. Be careful of your dinner! (The Washington Post)
Thoughtful, engrossing . . . You?re not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from. (The New York Times Book Review)
Michael Pollan has perfected a tone?one of gleeful irony and barely suppressed outrage?and a way of inserting himself into a narrative so that a subject comes alive through what he?s feeling and thinking. He is a master at drawing back to reveal the greater issues. (Los Angeles Times)
If you ever thought ?what?s for dinner? was a simple question, you?ll change your mind after reading Pollan?s searing indictment of today?s food industry?and his glimpse of some inspiring alternatives. . . . I just loved this book so much I didn?t want it to end. (The Seattle Times)
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