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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2013: Who has untangled the nature of modern America’s relationship with food more effectively than Michael Pollan? After sharing the experience of growing his own food in Second Nature, he illuminated how our appetites drive the evolution of edible plants with The Botany of Desire. Then he pondered The Omnivore’s Dilemma, weighing our precarious food chain and popularizing the pleasures of eating local; In Defense of Food and Food Rules distilled his conclusions into a manifesto and a manual. With Cooked, he closes the seed-to-table loop with a passionate exploration of the satisfying transformation of grilling, braising, baking, and fermenting--and their primal roots. Learning to cook elevated humans from lone animals into increasingly intelligent, civilized groups, and though we spend scant time doing real cooking, we’ve become obsessed with watching people cook--a paradox that points to longing for a lost experience. Through his own experiences making and enjoying food with pit masters, chefs, bakers, and “fermentos,” he retraces our path to connection with real ingredients and health for people and planet. Whether you’re sympathetic or skeptical, you can’t help but appreciate Pollan’s genius for conveying the elemental appeal of making a meal. --Mari Malcolm
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Michael Pollan, recently featured on Netflix in the four-part series Cooked, is the author of seven previous books, including Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at Berkeley. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 480 pages. Cover wornFire, water, air, earth--our most truste d food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Coo ked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory o f his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the f our classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Appr enticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan lear ns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferm ent everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world , standing squarely between nature and culture. Both realms are t ransformed by cooking, and so, in the process, is the cook. Each section of Cooked tracks Pollan's effort to master a single class ic recipe using one of the four elements. A North Carolina barbec ue pit master tutors him in the primal magic of fire; a Chez Pani sse-trained cook schools him in the art of braising; a celebrated baker teaches him how air transforms grain and water into a frag rant loaf of bread; and finally, several mad-genius fermentos (a tribe that includes brewers, cheese makers, and all kinds of pick lers) reveal how fungi and bacteria can perform the most amazing alchemies of all. The reader learns alongside Pollan, but the les sons move beyond the practical to become an investigation of how cooking involves us in a web of social and ecological relationshi ps: with plants and animals, the soil, farmers, our history and c ulture, and, of course, the people our cooking nourishes and deli ghts. Cooking, above all, connects us. The effects of not cooking are similarly far reaching. Relying upon corporations to process our food means we consume huge quantities of fat, sugar, and sal t; disrupt an essential link to the natural world; and weaken our relationships with family and friends. In fact, Cooked argues, t aking back control of cooking may be the single most important st ep anyone can take to help make the American food system healthie r and more sustainable. Reclaiming cooking as an act of enjoyment and self-reliance, learning to perform the magic of these everyd ay transformations, opens the door to a more nourishing life.--. Seller Inventory # 1465ai
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