Christine Dabney wrote:

>
> I went to Borders...


>
> But I was really floored by the number of folks looking at
> cookbooks..and it looked like they were buying!!
>
> Wonder what this means for the future of cooking in this country?
>



Let's hope adventurous home cooking and better nutrition are a result.

I just finished "An Omnivore's Dilemma" and I want to send a copy to
everyone I know. Loved it!

gloria p

On 2009-08-15, Gloria P > wrote:

> I just finished "An Omnivore's Dilemma" and I want to send a copy to
> everyone I know. Loved it!

What did you like about it, Gloria? I may get it from the library.

nb

notbob wrote:
> On 2009-08-15, Gloria P > wrote:
>
>> I just finished "An Omnivore's Dilemma" and I want to send a copy to
>> everyone I know. Loved it!
>
> What did you like about it, Gloria? I may get it from the library.
>
> nb


He writes a fairly in depth description of both the eating and origin of
four meals:

--fast food (Mc Donald's)
--factory food (most supermarket food)
--organic and quasi-organic food farming
--a hunter-gatherer meal, mostly wild food, picked in the wild

I especially enjoyed the third section when he visited a self-sufficient
farming.

I had never thought about the origin of food except in the abstract.
Pollan's writing made it much more real.

We were on a business/vacation trip to Sweden when I read it and I
talked about it with an organic dairy farmer in Gotland who had met
Pollan and enjoyed the experience and his outlook. I'm sending him the
book.

gloria p

On Aug 15, 11:59*am, Gloria P > wrote:
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>
> > I went to Borders...
>
> > But I was really floored by the number of folks looking at
> > cookbooks..and it looked like they were buying!!
>
> > Wonder what this means for the future of cooking in this country?
>
> Let's hope adventurous home cooking and better nutrition are a result.
>
> I just finished "An Omnivore's Dilemma" and I want to send a copy to
> everyone I know. * Loved it!

I've been a fan since The Botany of Desire.
>
> gloria p

--Bryan

On Aug 15, 12:59*pm, Gloria P > wrote:
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>
> > I went to Borders...
>
> > But I was really floored by the number of folks looking at
> > cookbooks..and it looked like they were buying!!
>
> > Wonder what this means for the future of cooking in this country?
>
> Let's hope adventurous home cooking and better nutrition are a result.
>
> I just finished "An Omnivore's Dilemma" and I want to send a copy to
> everyone I know. * Loved it!
>
> gloria p

Want my address?

maxine, who'll pass it on after she reads it.

maxine wrote:
> On Aug 15, 12:59*pm, Gloria P > wrote:
>
>>Christine Dabney wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I went to Borders...
>>
>>>But I was really floored by the number of folks looking at
>>>cookbooks..and it looked like they were buying!!
>>
>>>Wonder what this means for the future of cooking in this country?
>>
>>Let's hope adventurous home cooking and better nutrition are a result.
>>
>>I just finished "An Omnivore's Dilemma" and I want to send a copy to
>>everyone I know. * Loved it!
>>
>>gloria p
>
>
> Want my address?
>
> maxine, who'll pass it on after she reads it.


I suppose everybody's read "under a tuscan sun" and F. F. K. Fishers
translation of The Physiology of taste by Brillat Savarin, i
recently had the pleasure of reading her "How to cook a wolf" very
entertaining if a bit dated.
--

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.
Let the games begin!
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