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发表于2024-05-03
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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.
FYS: Evolution of Cheeseburger. 2010 Fall.
评分上学期读的必读书。素食,和工业化农业。
评分I'm truly traumatized. I can never look at my meat the same way again and will try to eat the least possible. Now I consciously think about what goes into my mouth more than ever before. A book that certainly changed the way how I think and eat food
评分学到很多东西以外,没想到文字非常好,特别是打猎和采集那几章,很多句子想读出声来。
评分intro超有趣
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...
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...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024