Authors: Michael Pollan
ISBN-13: 9780143038580, ISBN-10: 0143038583
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: August 2007
Edition: Reprint
Michael Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, a contributing writer for The New York Times, and a bestselling author of witty, offbeat nonfiction that examines various aspects of the agricultural industry, the food chain, and man's place in the natural world.
A 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.
Thoughtful, engrossing ... You're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from.
Introduction : our national eating disorder | 1 | |
1 | The plant : corn's conquest | 15 |
2 | The farm | 32 |
3 | The elevator | 57 |
4 | The feedlot : making meat | 65 |
5 | The processing plant : making complex foods | 85 |
6 | The consumer : a republic of fat | 100 |
7 | The meal : fast food | 109 |
8 | All flesh is grass | 123 |
9 | Big organic | 134 |
10 | Grass : thirteen ways of looking at a pasture | 185 |
11 | The animals : practicing complexity | 208 |
12 | Slaughter : in a glass abattoir | 226 |
13 | The market : "greetings from the non-barcode people" | 239 |
14 | The meal : grass-fed | 262 |
15 | The forager | 277 |
16 | The omnivore's dilemma | 287 |
17 | The ethics of eating animals | 304 |
18 | Hunting : the meat | 334 |
19 | Gathering : the fungi | 364 |
20 | The perfect meal | 391 |