“Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Quotes from book
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a nonfiction book written by American author Michael Pollan published in 2006. In the book, Pollan asks the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. As omnivores, the most unselective eaters, humans are faced with a wide variety of food choices, resulting in a dilemma. Pollan suggests that, prior to modern food preservation and transportation technologies, this particular dilemma was resolved primarily through cultural influences.
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“So that's us: processed corn, walking.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.
“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 318.
