The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for the Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World - Softcover

Pollan, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747586756 ISBN 13: 9780747586753

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

Synopsis

We are indeed what we eat - and what we eat remakes the world. But we are only just beginning to recognise the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. "The Ominvore's Dilemma" is bestselling author Michael Pollan's eye-opening exploration of the American food industry. His astonishing findings will resonate enormously for people everywhere who care about what they put on their plate. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" brings a fresh perspective to the simple yet momentous question 'What shall we have for dinner?', which is overwhelming for any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the 'omnivore's dilemma'. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. Dealing with each of the food chains that sustain us (industrialized food, alternative or 'organic' food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering or gardening) Pollan follows each food chain through from the ground to sitting down to a meal, tracing the provenance of everything consumed. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is an uncompromisingly realised, eloquent, philosophical and absorbing book for anyone who thinks about where their food comes from.

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Review:

‘What should you eat? Pollan addresses that fundamental question with great wit and intelligence' -- Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

‘You’re not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from....brimming with ideas’ -- New York Times

From the Publisher:

By the acclaimed author of The Botany of Desire. For fans of
Fast Food Nation and Shopped. The Omnivore's Dilemma has been shortlisted
for the Andre Simon Memorial award 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747586756
• ISBN 13: 9780747586753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464