The Omnivore's Dilemma - by Michael Pollan (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming, organic food, and what it is like to hunt and gather food, this is a surprisingly honest and self-aware account of the evolution of the modern diet.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>One of the <i>New York Times Book Review's </i>Ten Best Books of the Year</b> <p/><b>Winner of the James Beard Award <p/>Author of <i>How to Change Your Mind </i>and the #1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestsellers <i>In Defense of Food </i>and <i>Food Rules</i></b> <p/>What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma, </i>his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan's revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma</i> continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'When you can eat just about anything nature has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, ' Pollan writes in this supple and probing book. He gracefully navigates within these anxieties as he traces the origins of four meals--from a fast-food dinner to a hunter-gatherer feast--and makes us see, with remarkable clarity, exactly how what we eat affects both our bodies and the planet. Pollan is the perfect tour guide: his prose is incisive and alive, and pointed without being tendentious. In an uncommonly good year for American food writing, this is a book that stands out. --from <i>The New York Times</i> Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2006"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael Pollan is the author of five books: <i>Second Nature</i>, <i>A Place of My Own</i>, <i>The Botany of Desire</i>, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestellers, <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma</i>, and <i>In Defense of Food</i>.<p>A longtime contributing writer to <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.</p>
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