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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
It took a few chapters to really get on board with Pollan's writing style, but once I did I became fascinated with the facts presented and suggestions given. What sums it up best for me is this line, from the last chapter: "...in our time cooking from scratch and growing any of your own food qualify as subversive acts." This book takes the idea of our fast food nation and breaks down, step by step, how we came to this place. A good majority of the book discusses nutritionism and why/how this ideology has actually led to less healthy citizens.
Highly suggest this read for anyone who is skeptical about the place to which food as be relegated in American culture, anyone willing to reevaluate their relationship with food, anyone even remotely of the mind that food is much more than just nutritionism.
Highly suggest this read for anyone who is skeptical about the place to which food as be relegated in American culture, anyone willing to reevaluate their relationship with food, anyone even remotely of the mind that food is much more than just nutritionism.