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

这本书我怀疑不会被引进到国内，就是引进了也未必有多少人看。你吃玉米我吃饭，你吃牛来我吃猪，你喝苏打我喝汤，大家饮食结构不尽相同。不过写作套路很值得借鉴。 它是一本美国版的“写食主义”，只是面向的是萝卜白菜的大众。沈宏非的写食是美食家的闲谈。朱伟的写食是文学...  

- 翻查記錄, 自己好像是14年還是15年就標註出想看這本書, 書本也買了回家兩三年, 卻一直沒有翻開。這本書因為伙伴的推薦, 在'業內'也算是經典了, 像我那麼"儒子不可教"者, 估計人數也不多。 - 這次會想打開來讀, 主要是因為合作伙伴中有群家長在讀, 聽他們分享說很有意思, 那反...  

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...  

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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非常推荐，推荐和THE FOOD COMPANY的记录片配合看。 对饮食有很好的理解。

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