The Omnivore’s Dilemma

I have been puzzling for the last few days how to best describe Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. It is a book with a lot of ideas and it would be impossible to reduce it to a paragraph and do it justice. So I won’t try. Suffice it to say if you are interested in food, or for that matter, if you eat food, you should read this book. It is the most insightful examination of the modern industrial processes of creating and consuming food that I have ever read.

For those of you who don’t want to read another depressing Upton Sinclairesque manifesto on the evils of our modern industrial economy, please read this anyway. It has its fair share of disturbing information about the source of our food, but it also presents alternatives and as Pollan says at the end of the introduction, “.. this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kinds of pleasure that are only deepened by knowing.”

- Daniel