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The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan
2006 · 450 pages

Pollan traces four meals backward: a drive-through, Whole Foods, Joel Salatin's farm, and a pig he shoots himself. Carbon isotopes reveal Americans are built of corn. He made provenance a mass preoccupation.

★ 6.3