The Omnivore's Dilemma: The search for a perfect meal in a fast-food world by Michael Pollan

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  • wester on April 01, 2010

    This book will change the way you look at your food. Definitely. A highly important book, and very readable. Not a cookbook, though.

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  • Amateur Gourmet

    ...this is an essential book, a book that’ll change your life and help make the world a better place. You may not agree with every part (...) but you will be woken up - shocked awake, really...

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  • Amateur Gourmet

    ...And as wholesome as that all sounds, this book–which may be the most important book written about food in the last decade (or more)–also happens to be a very fun read.

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  • ISBN 10 0747586837
  • ISBN 13 9780747586838
  • Published May 21 2007
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 464
  • Language English
  • Edition New Ed
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Penguin

Publishers Text

What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Low-carb or low-cal? As the American culture of fast food and unlimited choice invades the world, Pollan follows his next meal from land to table, tracing the origin of everything consumed and the implications for ourselves and our planet. His astonishing findings will shock all who care about what they put on their plate.

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