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Cooked: A Natural History Of Transformation (2013)

by Michael Pollan(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1594204217 (ISBN13: 9781594204210)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

The Penguin Press HC

review 1: An interesting commentary on modern day cooking habits and the author's belief that Americans could be healthier physically, mentally, and socially if we returned to the basics in the kitchen. Covers four different elements of cooking. While I found some of the processes and his philosophizing interesting, the details of some of the cooking processes (barbecuing pork and fermenting alcohol) to be sluggish.
review 2: Overall a good read. I found some of the journey fascinating. I was, however, a bit put off by Pollan's outright snobbish attitude that crops up at times. (Really? People in the South never heard of Bobby Flay? They never watch Food TV? They never subscribed to cable or satellite?) The book is worth a read. It does offer interesting thought toward... mores different viewpoints in various food movements and legislation. less

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