The Omnivore's Dilemma
What should we have for dinner? Michael Pollan confronts this seemingly simple question, demonstrating that our food choices determine not only our health but our survival as a species. This revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food, launching a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences of everyday food choices on ourselves and the natural world. The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform how Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
Michael Pollan traces four meals back to their sources: an industrial fast-food meal (corn-based, from a McDonald's drive-through), an industrial-organic meal (bought at Whole Foods), a meal from Polyface Farm, Joel Salatin's sustainable, pasture-based farm in Virginia, and a meal Pollan hunts and forages himself in California.
Yes — it won the James Beard Award for Writing on Food in 2007. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was named one of The New York Times' ten best books of 2006.