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

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

本文原载于掘火网刊： http://www.digforfire.net/news.php?extend.239 这本书的话题对我来说很亲切，一是以前在美国中部工作的时候，曾经有位非常要好的同事，放弃当时还算有前途的工作和城市生活，带着妻子和女儿搬到一个农场上 开始"农民"的生活。他的农场以种植蔬果为主...  

又一本直击食品业有关内幕、反思美国人的饮食的书籍出炉了！ 这本书的内涵其实很丰富，时下只能说几个要点： 1 美国人的食品也存在极大的隐患：疯牛病的危险、大肠杆菌爆发、食品中汞超标、肌肉中含过量砷……诸如此类，就好像中国有绿源的回炉牛肉干、华龙的过期面粉……无...  

如果你看过Michael Pollan任意两本书或者纪录片，这本书就不用看了。 如果你看了这本书，作者以前任何的书或者纪录片都不用看了。 本书分成三个大部分，第一部分讲玉米在美国的过度生产和滥用。 第二部分讲有机食品走入歧路和寻找真正的健康食品。 第三部分才是甚是吸引人的标...  

（修）原来这本书已经被翻译成中文，在台湾2008年出版，名字叫《到底要吃什么》，但是网上的消息大部分打不开，不知道在大陆怎么能买到（知道了请你跟我联系）： http://netbooks.pixnet.net/blog/post/19638589 原文： 这本书非常重要，写得也很令人入迷，可以一边享受阅读，...  

用户评价

和Cat中午吃饭的时候她提到的书。之前也看到这本书，没有motivation翻开看。大致翻了一遍，就是我们自己摸索的比较健康的饮食方式的reinforcement. 每天生活不可能细致到每一样食物都健康绿色，只能说majority尽可能能做到一种比较自然，按照自己身体所需的方式搭配就好了。

和Cat中午吃饭的时候她提到的书。之前也看到这本书，没有motivation翻开看。大致翻了一遍，就是我们自己摸索的比较健康的饮食方式的reinforcement. 每天生活不可能细致到每一样食物都健康绿色，只能说majority尽可能能做到一种比较自然，按照自己身体所需的方式搭配就好了。

FYS: Evolution of Cheeseburger. 2010 Fall.

和Cat中午吃饭的时候她提到的书。之前也看到这本书，没有motivation翻开看。大致翻了一遍，就是我们自己摸索的比较健康的饮食方式的reinforcement. 每天生活不可能细致到每一样食物都健康绿色，只能说majority尽可能能做到一种比较自然，按照自己身体所需的方式搭配就好了。

I'm truly traumatized. I can never look at my meat the same way again and will try to eat the least possible. Now I consciously think about what goes into my mouth more than ever before. A book that certainly changed the way how I think and eat food