Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan

  • Pork shoulder barbecue with vinegar-BBQ sauce

    from Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation Cooked by Michael Pollan

    • Categories: Grills & BBQ; Main course; Cooking for a crowd; American South
    • Ingredients: pork shoulder; hickory chips; apple cider vinegar; brown sugar; dried red pepper flakes
    • Accompaniments: Asian dipping sauce
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  • Ms. Marmite Lover

    Written in an accessible way, this book has good pacing, reading like a food adventure story. Pollan never talks down to the reader and seems excited by what he is discovering.

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  • Fuss Free Flavours

    If you want recipes then this is not the book for you. There are four in the back of the book, but really this is a well written and easily readable meander around the meaning of food and cooking.

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  • ISBN 10 1846148030
  • ISBN 13 9781846148033
  • Published Apr 23 2013
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 480
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Allen Lane

Publishers Text

In a culture of celebrity chefs and food reality shows, in countries which are crammed with fresh ingredients flown in from every corner of the Earth, we nonetheless year-on-year wade ever deeper into a great swamp of processed foods. The more we watch food on television, the less food we actually prepare and cook. Michael Pollan's marvellous new book is a clarion-call for the virtues and values of proper cooking - an essential, defining human activity which sits at the heart of our cultures, shapes family life and is in itself hugely enjoyable. Pollan recreates the transformative fundamentals of how we cook, building from the most basic principles: cooking with fire, cooking with water, cooking with air and cooking with earth. Cooked is an extremely funny and surprising plea to Pollan's readers to take control of their own fates and revel again in what should be a lifetime's engagement with the almost magical activity of making food. And it is, of course, about so much more - how cooking can transform both how we think about ourselves and about our families and friends.

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