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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 15 h et 53 min
- Catégories: Maison et jardin, Nourriture et vin
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In Defense of Food
- An Eater's Manifesto
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 6 h et 22 min
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In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion - most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
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A life changer book on food and diet
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-11-27
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Cooked
- A Natural History of Transformation
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
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In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements - fire, water, air, and earth - to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world....
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Fire, Water, Air, Earth Cooking!
- Écrit par Barbara Appleton le 2020-09-19
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 2 h et 2 min
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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Not what i expected
- Écrit par Andre Brisson le 2020-06-22
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Defending Beef
- The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
- Auteur(s): Nicolette Hahn Niman
- Narrateur(s): Nicolette Hahn Niman
- Durée: 10 h et 39 min
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For decades, it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef. The public has long been led to believe that livestock, especially cattle, erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. In Defending Beef, Hahn Niman argues that cattle are not inherently bad for either the Earth or our own nutritional health.
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A must read for all eaters!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-10-27
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The Botany of Desire
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.
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wonderful
- Écrit par Rayne le 2019-08-19
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Second Nature
- A Gardener's Education
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere.
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In Defense of Food
- An Eater's Manifesto
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 6 h et 22 min
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In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion - most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
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A life changer book on food and diet
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-11-27
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Cooked
- A Natural History of Transformation
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
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In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements - fire, water, air, and earth - to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world....
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Fire, Water, Air, Earth Cooking!
- Écrit par Barbara Appleton le 2020-09-19
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 2 h et 2 min
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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Not what i expected
- Écrit par Andre Brisson le 2020-06-22
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Defending Beef
- The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
- Auteur(s): Nicolette Hahn Niman
- Narrateur(s): Nicolette Hahn Niman
- Durée: 10 h et 39 min
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For decades, it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef. The public has long been led to believe that livestock, especially cattle, erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. In Defending Beef, Hahn Niman argues that cattle are not inherently bad for either the Earth or our own nutritional health.
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A must read for all eaters!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-10-27
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The Botany of Desire
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.
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wonderful
- Écrit par Rayne le 2019-08-19
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Second Nature
- A Gardener's Education
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere.
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 13 h et 35 min
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When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third.
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Educational, enlightening, and optimistic.
- Écrit par Bryar C le 2018-05-31
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Folks, This Ain't Normal
- A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
- Auteur(s): Joel Salatin
- Narrateur(s): Joel Salatin
- Durée: 15 h et 14 min
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From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In Folks, This Ain't Normal, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love.
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Enlightening
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-09-24
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You Can Farm
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
- Auteur(s): Joel Salatin
- Narrateur(s): Joel Salatin
- Durée: 14 h et 11 min
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Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: Not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers.
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Wonderfully motivating
- Écrit par AL le 2020-11-16
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The Third Plate
- Field Notes on the Future of Food
- Auteur(s): Dan Barber
- Narrateur(s): Dan Barber
- Durée: 14 h et 30 min
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The Third Plate is chef Dan Barber’s extraordinary vision for a new future of American eating. After more than a decade spent investigating farming communities around the world in pursuit of singular flavor, Barber finally concluded that - for the sake of our food, our health, and the future of the land - America’s cuisine required a radical transformation.
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
- Third Edition
- Auteur(s): Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
- Narrateur(s): Paul W. Griffiths
- Durée: 17 h et 17 min
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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels.
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live this approach
- Écrit par Paul David Evans le 2021-01-14
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Dirt to Soil
- One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
- Auteur(s): Gabe Brown
- Narrateur(s): Gabe Brown
- Durée: 7 h et 44 min
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In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown tells the story of his ranch's amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil. The Brown’s Ranch model, developed over 20 years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil.
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Nothing Short of Excellent
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-05-04
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Food Rules
- An Eater's Manual
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 1 h et 20 min
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Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that has become best-selling author Michael Pollan's trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, minute by minute, accompanied by a concise explanation.
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Fine, but overlaps In Defence of Food
- Écrit par Watsn le 2020-07-01
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The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs
- Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation
- Auteur(s): Joel Salatin
- Narrateur(s): Joel Salatin
- Durée: 10 h et 21 min
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Joel Salatin is perhaps the nation's best known farmer, whose environmentally friendly, sustainable Polyface Farms has been featured in Food, Inc. and Time magazine. Now, in his first audiobook written for a faith audience, Salatin offers a deeply personal argument for earth stewardship and calls for fellow Christians to join him in looking to the Bible for a foodscape in line with spiritual truth.
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Restoration Agriculture
- Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
- Auteur(s): Mark Shepard
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
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The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm, or ranch scale and is needed right now - on a global scale. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel, and many other needs.
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Just bad woowoo bro science
- Écrit par Nicolas Q. le 2020-09-08
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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Auteur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Narrateur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Durée: 9 h et 32 min
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When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective.
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Great listen
- Écrit par Rachel Ridley le 2020-11-16
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The Unsettling of America
- Culture & Agriculture
- Auteur(s): Wendell Berry
- Narrateur(s): Nick Offerman
- Durée: 12 h et 54 min
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Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't, which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.
The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is best-selling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.
We are indeed what we eat, and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as "What shall we have for dinner?"
Ce que les critiques en disent
- National Book Critics Circle 2006 Award Finalist, Nonfiction
"Remarkably clearheaded book....A fascinating journey up and down the food chain." (Publishers Weekly)
"His supermeticulous reporting is the book's strength - you're not likely to get a better explanation of where your food comes from....In an uncommonly good year for American food writing, this is a book that stands out." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Completely charming." (Nora Ephron)
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-06-23
Awful
This book was terrible. The details remind you of someone who anticipates something so much they are their own worst enemy. There is no Omnivore’s dilemma.
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- Chris Elder
- 2020-04-12
A revelationary journey through food chain
Narration was excellent and never distracting. Story managed to be both compelling and enlightening. It will most likely force you to think about where your food comes from; just don't expect a guide to eating responsibly. That's left up to you to figure out.
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- Steffen Cruz
- 2019-06-27
A thoughtful and well-rounded book.
Informative, poetic and very funny. I particularly enjoyed how the modern hype around organic industry is also examined. I learnt so much
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- Trent T
- 2019-01-07
Incredibly well written and interesting
Even though this book deals with American food supply chains, it's still definitely a worthwhile read for Canadians, as many of the issues discussed in this book apply to us as well. Michael Pollan is an incredible writer, his style of investigative journalism interlaced with his own anecdotes is a delight to read, it kept me interested the whole way through. It's reshaped the way I view the food industry and what I eat, I think pretty much everyone would take away something from this book. A must read.
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-11-26
very educational and informative
love the book! probably will read it again just really absorb everything! these books cover information that most people will never get the chance to learn in school!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-09-20
If you eat, you should listen to this!
Informative, entertaining, captivaing! If you eat, you need to listen to this!! Michael takes you on a guided tour from farm to table, giving you the downlow on where your food really comes from! #Audible1
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- MCRedding
- 2009-02-07
Great presentation of a moral dilemma
Pollan's examination of the cultural, moral and socioeconomic tradeoffs we make when eating food is a deep and exhaustive consideration of the consequences of seeming simple choices. By structuring the work around 4 meals, he presents four alternative relationships to nature and the world, and lays bare the personal consequences of each. I found that the detail was, at times unnecessarily fastidious, as when Pollan agonizes over the authenticity of hunting, but not killing, the wild boar in his hunter and gatherer meal, and then taking us through the process again, just so he can personally pull the trigger. I would have rather he had just lied, and took credit for the first kill.
The mix of science, economics and gastronomy was what I would like the Food Network to really be about. The personal perspective of the book sometimes got in the way, but gave it a visceral feel that kept my interest.
What did I learn from the book? That sorting out the food chains involved in what I eat daily is way too complicated to really address it in real life. I would have liked to see an epilogue that explained the way Pollan has worked it out. He hints at this at the end, but doesn't ever present a cogent agenda for how making responsible choices about food fits into the real world of budgets and schedules that we have developed since making the evolutionary choice to not spent most of our waking hours feeding ourselves.
I learned how mushrooms are gathered and the physiology of corn. I learned more than I would ever really want to about the beef industry, and the ecology of grasses. Overall, it was an enjoyable read that will stick with me longer than the meal of boar and mushrooms Pollan serves to his friends at the end of the book.
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- chris
- 2007-07-16
Engrossing and enlightening
When the book opened, I thought it was going to become some PETA fueled anti-meat rant, and then I thought it was going to become some anti-GM food hippy organic food rant, but I was wrong on both counts. It touches those subjects and many more. In fact, the book moves seamlessly between many subjects.
The author loves meat, and food, but he wants to know exactly where it comes from. He starts by homing in on corn, which is by far the most important component of our diet, being in almost everything we eat in one form or another (interesting, eh?). He then looks closer: how did corn come to dominate our diet, and why do farmers get paid less for their corn than it costs to grow it, and what is the real cost of all that cheap corn?
He then looks at the organic movement, and shows that organic is far from the pastoral ideal we imagine it to be. It is better than over-tilled and fertilized fields and manure filled feedlots, at least. I know a lot of farmers and I have seen some of this first-hand.
Then the author focuses on a truly sustainable farm, and the genius farmers who not only make it work, but make it work well. They can also tell you precisely why it works.
And that's only the first half of the book. The author keeps moving, filling the pages with startling facts and truly excellent writing. The author is apparently a journalist, and it shows in his extensive research and persuasive arguments.
I enjoyed this far more than I expected to. It helps, I suppose, that I was receptive to it. Still, I couldn't put it down, and I can recommend it to anyone who eats.
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- Dave Staats
- 2011-08-12
Great for anyone. Should be required in school.
This is a fascinating soup to nuts description of the food chain particularly in America. It felt like Mr. Pollan did a great job of presenting all sides of many questions in a way that leaves the reader free to make the best of some rather difficult choices. Right now, many people don't even realize there ARE choices. One great point of this book is that we don't really know what we are putting in ourselves. Scott Brick wasn't as hammy as usual since it was non-fiction.
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- Nancy
- 2007-06-13
Good Content, Difficult Narration
I really enjoyed Michael Pallin's last book and this one is very good too. The section on local agriculture was very interesting. Bu the narrator was overly dramatic to the point of being difficult to listen to. I'm a dedicated listener, and I liked the book, but I nearly turned it off a few times due to the narration.
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- history buff
- 2009-08-26
FANTASTIC LISTEN!!
this is one fantastic book. do yourself, your family, loved ones, anyone who EATS FOOD!! a favor and give, discuss, live this book. my favorite gift to give. my health has improved dramatically by taking his lessons to heart.
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- Lily
- 2008-11-02
Great book; didn't love the reading
While raving to a friend about Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle", she recommended this book, so it was my next purchase. Early on I began to wonder if ANYTHING was really healthy and ethical to eat, unless you can produce all your own food! But it turned out to have some fascinating and valuable information about the way our food is grown, processed and transported, so it was well worth reading.
As for the narration... I've listened to several other books narrated by Scott Brick, and he's never been a favorite, but this was just baaaaddd. This book did NOT require a dramatic reading, but that's what it got! And I wish someone would give narrators a list of uncommon words in advance so he or she can be prepared! Mr. Brick really butchered a few words, and based on sentence context, I think he may have mis-read a few words altogether! I kept telling myself it's not a big deal - I got the point - but it's just so distracting!
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- Kathryn
- 2009-07-30
Loved it!
Quality from the research to the narration. Pollan deserves a medal for the work he's done. This is a dense book, and is particularly well-suited to audio. (Quite frankly, I'm not sure I would have gotten through the print version, and that would have been a shame.) One of the most influential books I've "read" in years.
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- Joao
- 2009-11-01
You owe yourself to listen to this book
This book is big, and the reason it's big is because there's a lot to say about this subject. You may decide to not change anything in your habits, but at least you'll be making a conscious decision. This book talks about how a lot of other people make decisions for us on what we eat in a journalistic way that is not radical. Tells it like it is, backed up with research. I thank the writer for getting this book out there and the reader/producers for making it possible for me to get its contents during my commute.
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- Robert
- 2011-08-29
A must read
I don't think most people welcome the knowledge contained in this selection. What's the expression?... more information than I wanted to know. But it's not more information than we need to know. The book is long. As a biologist and geek, it was not too long for me. While most of what I have listened to by Scott Brick has been fiction and I have not always appreciated him as a reader, I believe he was perfect for this book. My only concern is that because of its length, some readers might be turned off and this is not a subject that should be turned off or not listened and paid attention to.
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- Elton
- 2007-04-29
Corn as a Four Letter Word
So I guess Pollen doesn't like corn...I liked this book, but one thing I could not understand is the extravegant nature and methods Pollen uses to do the mundane. The lengths he goes to just to prepare a natural meal are pretty extraordinary. We do need greater transparency, especially when it comes to knowing what we are putting in our bodies for sustinance. This is clear...but I disagree with some of the subtle over statements and poor choices made by the author. He has a good point, but he should have fought the urge to indulge.
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