The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals By Michael Pollan Genre: Nonfiction / Food / Health / Environmental Science Publication Year: 2006 My Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) The Most Complicated Question in the Kitchen "What should we have for dinner?" Few questions seem more ordinary. It arises in households every day, often between work obligations, family schedules, and an increasingly desperate search through the refrigerator. Yet Michael Pollan takes this deceptively simple question and reveals it to be one of the most consequential questions modern humans can ask. When I first read The Omnivore's Dilemma , I expected a book about food. What I encountered instead was a book about systems: agricultural systems, economic systems, ecological systems, political systems, and ultimately the human systems of belief and behavior that determine what ends up on our plates. Like many of the best works of nonfiction, Pollan changes the reader's perspect...