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From Publishers Weekly [Signature]Reviewed by Pamela Kaufman Pollan (_The Botany of Desire_) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It's a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way you read the label on a frozen dinner, dig into a steak or decide whether to buy organic eggs. You'll certainly never look at a Chicken McNugget the same way again.Pollan approaches his mission not as an activist but as a naturalist: "The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world." All food, he points out, originates with plants, animals and fungi. "[E]ven the deathless Twinkie is constructed out of... well, precisely what I don't know offhand, but ultimately some sort of formerly living creature, i.e., a species . We haven't yet begun to synthesize our foods from petroleum, at least not directly."Pollan's narrative strategy is simple: he traces four meals back to their ur-species. He starts with a McDonald's lunch, which he and his family gobble up in their car. Surprise: the origin of this meal is a cornfield in Iowa. Corn feeds

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Author

Pollan, Michael

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594200823

Category

science

Subjects

Agriculture, Health & Fitness, Folklore

Rating

4.17 / 5 (10,074 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13