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Saturday, November 07, 2009

My Current Favorite Non-Fiction Book

If you eat food, this book should be at the top of your reading list: The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. Recommended to me as a "life-changing" book, I thought yeah, right, a book about food, life-changing, mmHmmm... but he was right!

Pollan brilliantly illustrates four different meals he partakes of, following each through the entire food chain. From industrial food (what most of us in the US eat, most of the time), to industrial organic, then on to sustainable farms and finally winding up with the shortest (and probably least utilized, or perhaps least accessable) food chain of all, the hunter/gatherer meal, the author will leave you completely incapable of thinking about food the same way again!

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