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发表于2024-07-06
The Omnivore's Dilemma pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
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.
英文寫作課必讀材料第一本。不確定有沒有引進國內,因為主要在講美國食品工業和反思老美到底要怎麼吃飯的問題……事無巨細,事無巨細啊!!!這作者把他乾過的所有經曆的細節全部寫齣來瞭……喋喋不休,看死人瞭……
評分FYS: Evolution of Cheeseburger. 2010 Fall.
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我喜欢这个作者的文笔,风趣幽默,还很有条理,知性的同时也不缺深切关怀,就很有魅力的感觉。这本书以三条主食物链为逻辑线,分别剖露出深入日常的产业化食物链的运作方式、另类食物选择中有机食物链的真实状况以及最后作者亲自下场体验采猎食物链这种往昔的进食方式。三种食...
評分又一本直击食品业有关内幕、反思美国人的饮食的书籍出炉了! 这本书的内涵其实很丰富,时下只能说几个要点: 1 美国人的食品也存在极大的隐患:疯牛病的危险、大肠杆菌爆发、食品中汞超标、肌肉中含过量砷……诸如此类,就好像中国有绿源的回炉牛肉干、华龙的过期面粉……无...
評分 評分 評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...
The Omnivore's Dilemma pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024