Melody Murray's Books

Nothing will ever be the same again. That's what I thought to myself about 6 pages into this incredible book. Pollan is a fabulous writer who keeps getting better. He brings to his quest for the origins of his dinner a journalistic sensibility that has no particular agenda yet pulls no punches, either. There is so much information about how we eat, and why, in this book I'm sure I've not absorbed it all. But I've grokked enough of it to have changed the way I acquire food. It's funny in parts, heartbreakingly sad in others, and ultimately, for me, transformative. My favorite line from the book is this: "We are corn's koala." Highly recommended.