The Omnivore's Dilemma
Subtitle: A Natural History of Four Meals
Edition: U.S. Softcover large print edition (5)
Publisher: Large Print Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 709
ISBN-13: 9781594132056
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Anthropology - General; History; Nutrition; General; Cooking; Archaeology / Anthropology
Description: In this groundbreaking book, one of America's most fascinating writers turns his mind to this seemingly straightforward question. The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but, according to Pollan, how we answer it today may well determine our very survival as a species. To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us -- industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves -- from the source to the final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating.
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Table of contents: title: Our national eating disorder -- I. Industrial: corn. The plant: corn's conquest -- The farm -- The grain 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: 13 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