Suitable for anyone who is concerned about health and food, this book offers a set of memorable adages designed to help you eat real food in reasonable amounts, gathered from a wide variety of sources: nutritionists, anthropologists, ancient cultures - and grandmothers.

Providing an exploration of the American food industry, this book brings a fresh perspective to the question 'what shall we have for dinner?'. It follows each food chain, tracing the provenance of everything consumed, and is useful for those who think about where their food comes from.

Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking - from writer and cooking star Michael Pollan. Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth. Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that when it gets down to it, it also fundamentally shapes our lives. Filled with fascinating facts and curious, mouthwatering tales from cast of eccentrics, Cooked explores the deepest mysteries of...

Autor se ve své mimořádně čtivé práci zaměřuje na velkovýrobu potravin v USA, ovšem jeho poznatky jsou stejně platné pro všechny vyspělé země západního světa. Krom alarmujícího reportážního popisu samotné produkce uvažuje i o tom, jaký má dopad na krajinu, hospodářské plodiny a zvířata, ale i na skladbu našeho jídelníčku, stavovací návyky, kulturu stolování i zdraví člověka.
Jeho popis průmyslového zpracování potravin, do kterého vstupuje chemie či genetické inženýrství, je varovný, autor nicméně v této i dalších svých knihách...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Food Rules, Michael Pollan's wise and witty critique of the western industrialised diet, distils the wisdom of history and traditional cultures to three simple rules: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming...