The Omnivore's Dilemma
I can't
wait to read this. I've been thinking a lot about food lately (maybe because winter is coming to Fairbanks, and I'm in fattening up mode?) and whether large scale/industrial organic is any better than conventional farming. And I love food (thinking about it, eating it, growing it, gathering it...), so this book should be right on target.
From the
New York Times:
Wealth, abundance and the lack of a steadying, centuries-old food culture have conspired to make us Americans dysfunctional eaters, obsessed with getting thin while becoming ever more fat, lurching from one specious bit of dietary wisdom (margarine is better for you than butter) to another (carbs kill). Pollan diagnoses a "national eating disorder," and he aims to shed light on both its causes and some potential solutions. To this end, he embarks on four separate eating adventures, each of which starts at the very beginning — in the soil from which the raw materials of his dinners will emerge — and ends with a cooked, finished meal.
