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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four MealsWhat shall we have for dinner?
To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma.

Pollan has divided the book into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening.

For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.
 
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