45 Forkfuls of Christmas

Forkful #12: A Great Read

Chances are, you’ve heard of Michael Pollan.  He’s a food writer, but not in the restaurant-review or recipe sense.  He loves to explore the cultural-industrial-anthropological side of what we eat.  His book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is one of my absolute favorite books.  In it, he digs into the supply chain journey of the foods we eat in our current industrial system, contrasting it against a more holistic farm system.  It will really open your eyes to the realities of our current food system.  Michael Pollan’s previous book, The Botany of Desire, is also quite good, and it traces the history of human interaction with a selection of plants, and the way humans and these plants have effected each other over time.

There are quite a few other books that have come out recently in this particular genre, but The Omnivore’s Dilemma was one of the first, and I think a fantastic book for anyone on your list who wants to know more about what they eat.



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