The Omnivore's Dilemma

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Don't forget to go see and listen to MICHAEL POLLAN 7:30 tomorrow night, Monday,

at the

Edina and Noble in the Galleria, where he will be discussing his new book

as well as

the politics of eating. I'm hoping to see almost everyone there! (Wayne, you are

excused!)

" The quest for the shortest possible chain between the producer and the

consumer " is how

the New Yorker describes this new book and Pollan discusses 4 meals

that he

makes and eats.

MEAL ONE = 100% Fast Food. He follows the trail back from the hamburger meat to

it's

source as well as back to the source of the high-fructose corn syrum in the

supersized

soda.

MEAL TWO = Big Organic. Everything is purchased at Whole Foods. This one will

shock

you.

MEAL THREE= Food that he had a hand in raising. He spent quite a bit of time

with famous

sustainable farmer JOEL SALADIN. A great meal but still not perfect

MEAL FOUR = " The Perfect Meal " which was a meal that he took almost total

responsibility

for raising or gathering. A wild pig he shot, morels gathered himself and

freshly picked

herbs and fruit.

MICHAEL POLLAN says " I wanted to test what it felt like to have a meal eaten

in full

chnsciousness of what it took to make it " . That consciousness is more religious

than

politica--every meal a sacrament. " We eat by the grace of nature, not industry,

and what

we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world " .

EAT LOCALLY, WITHIN A NETWORK OF FAMILIARITY

Will Winter

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