The omnivore's dilemma: the search for a perfect meal in a fast-food world / Michael Pollan
2006, 1st Edition. London: Bloomsbury. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #352888
ISBN: 0747586756
Physical description: 450 pages; 20 cm. Contents:
Introduction: our national eating disorder -- Industrial: corn. The plant: corn's conquest -- The farm -- The elevator -- The feedlot: making meat -- The processing plant: making complex foods -- The consumer: a republic of fat -- The meal: fast food -- Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass -- Big organic -- Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture -- The animals: practicing complexity -- Slaughter: in a glass abattoir -- The market: "greetings from the non-barcode people" -- The meal: grass-fed -- Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal. Subjects: Food habits. Food preferences. Food preferences United States. Dinners and dining.
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