Readers of Bet the Farm will glimpse the power behind global food and understand what truly supports the system that has brought mass misery to our planet. Our food is getting less healthy, less delicious, and more expensive even as the world’s biggest food companies and food scientists say things are better than ever and that […]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan Book
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the best-selling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? […]
In Defense of Food – An Eater’s Manifesto – Michael Pollan Book
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the dauting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend […]