Omnivores Dilemma

Needs to be savoured...

This review is from: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History Of Four Meals (Hardcover)

15 months ago

A book about food that truly needs to be savoured...read this book slowly, the way food is meant to be eaten and enjoyed, to truly understand and appreciate the work Pollan has done.

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What's For Dinner?

This review is from: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Large Print) (Trade Paperback)

2 years ago

Or an even better question is 'what is dinner made of?'. Michael Pollan brings to us his journey to find the 'perfect meal'. In the process of his search, he debunks several myths about the industrial agriculture that produces the majority of food at your local supermarket. One of the more revealing discoveries is that buying 'organic' is pretty much the same as your ordinary industrial agriculture, sometimes grown right next to the regular supermarket foods. While Pollan does go on to… + read more

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Thought provoking doesn't quite describe it -

This review is from: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History Of Four Meals (Hardcover)

3 years ago

Omnivore's Dilemma - catchy title, but after reading this book, there doesn't seem to be any dilemma. The choice is clear. This book is very well written, well-researched. Pollan has a great vocabulary, prompting a frequent use of the dictionary, but the message couldn't be any clearer. Our food chain is made complex by government policies, business decisions, economics, and history, and it obscures our vision of what it is exactly that we eat. Pollan's book challenges the reader to… + read more

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