Omnivore's Dilemma

Okay, I have a confession to make: the other reason (aside from being incredibly tired) that I could not muster the energy to write anything in my blog during the past week is that I have also been completely mesmerized reading another book about "the food we eat." This book is called The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan and it is absolutely fascinating! Here is how one book reviewer describes it:

In this groundbreaking book, one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers [Julie's Note: I agree! Pollen is a wonderful writer!] turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of "What should we have for dinner?" To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic 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-science laboratories, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic co-evolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. 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. 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.

Click on the following link and scroll half-way down the page and you'll find a link which will allow you to read the introduction and first chapter of the book: http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php

Please take the time to read at least this much of the book -- you won't regret it and hopefully you will be as fascinated as I was and actually buy/read the whole book. Do it!!! I promise you will never again think of food in the same way.