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frostap's review
4.0
Here's my thing with Michael Pollan: I'm nodding, nodding, nodding...and then suddenly I realize he may be thinking too deeply about food. Yes, I think we should cook more! Yes, I think cooking can be a mindful, transcendent experience! Yes, I want to purge my home of all processed food and eat local! Do I think microbial gut bacteria causes cancer? Hmmm... The man clearly thinks a LOT about food, and sometimes he goes one whit too far for me.
That said, this was an engaging read. Of course, I am now uber-conscientious about how and of what our food is made. I really wanted to try the recipes at in the appendix (except the home brewed beer, of course), but this new release library book had to be back on Wednesday night and did not qualify for renewal. Bummer.
Also, I think Michael Pollan and I are distantly related. Pollan = Pullan? Could be an Ellis Island thing.
That said, this was an engaging read. Of course, I am now uber-conscientious about how and of what our food is made. I really wanted to try the recipes at in the appendix (except the home brewed beer, of course), but this new release library book had to be back on Wednesday night and did not qualify for renewal. Bummer.
Also, I think Michael Pollan and I are distantly related. Pollan = Pullan? Could be an Ellis Island thing.
applegnreads's review
4.0
I had intentionally not put this on my to-read shelf. Pollan is often interesting but... well, something else too. Not sure how to describe it. It wound up being a book for one of my book groups so I read it. This may be my favorite of what he's written so far. Made me want to jump up and make sauerkraut. See? Lovely. He somehow makes things like sourdough bread, cheese-making, and barbecuing entire hogs seem totally possible to the average mortal which is not something most people can make happen.
bmoritz99's review
4.0
When he writes about his experience cooking, the book is excellent. The problem, for me, comes when he beings to go too far down the pontification route.