Cooked by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is a great writer who has a few interesting ideas about food and how it has changed over the past hundred years or so.  He’s not a big fan of the Industrial Revolution, Processed Foodstuffs, and the general fall and decline of the quality of life that comes from eating fake food. In Cooked Michael talks about the changes in the way we prepare-or more precisely how we don’t prepare-our food.  He starts off by breaking up his topic into the traditional methods of food cooking-Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.  It’s a bit of a stretch, but it…

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