Omnivore's Dilemma

The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

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Michael Pollan: Omnivore's Dilemma (2009, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

English language

Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

ISBN:
978-1-4088-0725-5
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What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves? The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.

In this groundbreaking book, one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for …

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Subjects

  • Food habits
  • Food chains (ecology)