The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism.

出版者:Penguin Press

作者:Michael Pollan

页数:464

出版时间:2006-4-11

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594200823

图书标签:食品美国农业文化food食物政治MichaelPollan饮食

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What should we have for dinner? For omnivore's like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma: When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. The omnivore's dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. 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.

The Omnivore's Dilemma is a groundbreaking book in which one of America's most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but, according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, ath the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic> Or perhaps something we hunt, gather or grow ourselves?

To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us--industrial food, organic or alternative 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 laboratories, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. Each time Pollan sits down to a meal, he deploys his unique blend of personal and investigative journalism to trace the origins of everything consumed, revealing what we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods and flavors reflects our evolutionary inheritance.

The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even mortal implications for all of us. Ultimately, this is a book as much about visionary solutions as it is about problems, and Pollan contends that, when it comes to food, doing the right thing often turns out to be the tastiest thing an eater can do. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, 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.

读后感

我的基本假设是，人类和地球上其他生物一样，都是食物链中的一环，人类在食物链中的地位，或多或少决定了人类是什么样的生物。人类杂食的特性，塑造出我们的心灵与身体本质（人类的牙齿和下颚能够处理各种食物，既能撕裂肉类也可磨碎种子，这就是杂食造成的身体特性）。我们与...  

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用户评价

其实食品制造工业化这一丑陋的流程是很难被逆转了. 我们可以做的是作为消费者努力不让我们的食品消费过程工业化. we eat industrially—which is to say, when we eat without a thought to what we're doing. 简单来说, 我们需要清楚的是: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. 越接近食品制造工业化的真相, 对工业化食品的逃离者就会越多, 这还是一个希望所在.

好像只是说给米国人的...

少有的我读了英文又回去读中文，读完中文又买了有声书的佳作。

so good

英文写作课必读材料第一本。不确定有没有引进国内，因为主要在讲美国食品工业和反思老美到底要怎么吃饭的问题……事无巨细，事无巨细啊！！！这作者把他干过的所有经历的细节全部写出来了……喋喋不休，看死人了……