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.
如果你看过Michael Pollan任意两本书或者纪录片,这本书就不用看了。 如果你看了这本书,作者以前任何的书或者纪录片都不用看了。 本书分成三个大部分,第一部分讲玉米在美国的过度生产和滥用。 第二部分讲有机食品走入歧路和寻找真正的健康食品。 第三部分才是甚是吸引人的标...
评分 评分我的基本假设是,人类和地球上其他生物一样,都是食物链中的一环,人类在食物链中的地位,或多或少决定了人类是什么样的生物。人类杂食的特性,塑造出我们的心灵与身体本质(人类的牙齿和下颚能够处理各种食物,既能撕裂肉类也可磨碎种子,这就是杂食造成的身体特性)。我们与...
评分我们吃什么 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...
评分如果你看过Michael Pollan任意两本书或者纪录片,这本书就不用看了。 如果你看了这本书,作者以前任何的书或者纪录片都不用看了。 本书分成三个大部分,第一部分讲玉米在美国的过度生产和滥用。 第二部分讲有机食品走入歧路和寻找真正的健康食品。 第三部分才是甚是吸引人的标...
总的说来有点罗嗦,但是内容还是不错的。而且虽然作者也有自己的观点,但是客观和不极端。
评分观点基本与纪录片the food inc. 重合
评分推荐读物
评分想法很好,不会写作。ENGL读这个真不幸
评分"We are indeed what we eat-and what we eat remakes the world"
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