Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism.
What should we have for dinner? For omnivore's like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma: When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. The omnivore's dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What's at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.
The Omnivore's Dilemma is a groundbreaking book in which one of America's most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but, according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, ath the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic> Or perhaps something we hunt, gather or grow ourselves?
To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us--industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves--from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating. His absorbing narrative takes us from Iowa cornfields to food laboratories, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. Each time Pollan sits down to a meal, he deploys his unique blend of personal and investigative journalism to trace the origins of everything consumed, revealing what we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods and flavors reflects our evolutionary inheritance.
The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even mortal implications for all of us. Ultimately, this is a book as much about visionary solutions as it is about problems, and Pollan contends that, when it comes to food, doing the right thing often turns out to be the tastiest thing an eater can do. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore's Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating. For anyone who reads it, dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same.
我们吃什么 我们所吃的食物,都与土地的生产力、太阳的能量联结起来。 我们所吃的食物,可以分为3种。第一种,产业化食物。第二种,有机食物。第三种,天然食物。 一、 产业化食物。 你走进餐厅,点了几个菜,麻辣鸡丁,牛肉排、猪肉肥肠。当你用筷子,把这些美食放进嘴巴里时...
评分 评分本文原载于掘火网刊: http://www.digforfire.net/news.php?extend.239 这本书的话题对我来说很亲切,一是以前在美国中部工作的时候,曾经有位非常要好的同事,放弃当时还算有前途的工作和城市生活,带着妻子和女儿搬到一个农场上 开始"农民"的生活。他的农场以种植蔬果为主...
评分 评分学到了一个短语,“American Paradox”,大意是把美国人的饮食方式和法国人相比,相衬之下,法国人对于吃的食品热量,食品甜度以及脂肪的多少并不那么顾忌,却依然可以保持好身材;而在美国,却是由很多人过度关心自己每天的热量食物,以低碳水和低脂肪饮食为宗旨,过一种可以...
和Cat中午吃饭的时候她提到的书。之前也看到这本书,没有motivation翻开看。大致翻了一遍,就是我们自己摸索的比较健康的饮食方式的reinforcement. 每天生活不可能细致到每一样食物都健康绿色,只能说majority尽可能能做到一种比较自然,按照自己身体所需的方式搭配就好了。
评分好像只是说给米国人的...
评分观点基本与纪录片the food inc. 重合
评分好像只是说给米国人的...
评分只给最后一章星星= =
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