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| The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 6201
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0747586837
EAN: 9780747586838
ASIN: 0747586837
Publication Date: May 21, 2007
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 Cogent, well-written, fascinating June 28, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Omnivore's Dilemma addresses the question: if you have the opportunity to eat anything, how do you know which things are best to eat? It delves into the food chains behind various meals, from the industrial to the pastoral.
The skills of Michael Pollan, the Knight Professor of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley, shine through in this book. It is remarkably clearly written, and addresses a broad range of perspectives and potential criticisms. It avoid preaching, which would be so easy to do with this subject, and instead presents information as information, and opinion as just that.
If you are remotely interested in what you put in your mouth, and where it comes from, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
 find out startling facts about the origins of our food June 10, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is very similar to 'fast food nation' in the way that it exposes the hidden mechanics of the food industry. But it does not focus solely on fast food.
The first section concentrates on the way a MacDonalds meal is produced, from its humble(?) beginnings in a corn field in Iowa, to the end product being consumed in the author's car; fascinating and page turning. The middle section concentrates on an 'organic' meal, and really opened my eyes to the idea of organic - it is not all you think it to be, and after reading this book I have reassessed what I think to be an environmentally friendly food. The last section outlines the author's search for a meal from foraging in the forests and fields around his Californian home. Fascinating again. Noone should think they know enough to pass this book by.
I gave it four stars, because the last section gets a little heavy going, but it all ties up well at the end, and worth sticking with it; I love the way that he concludes that the first (fast food) and last (foraged) meals are both two extremes and both unsustainable in the present world. MacDonalds should be saved for a 'treat' once a year and although he doesn't say it, he implies that we should all aim towards consuming locally produced, (not neccessarily organic) food that is the least 'costly' towards the environment - outlined in the meal of the middle section.
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