false 2121 3109 1594200823 9781594200823 5238 <![CDATA[The Omnivore's Dilemma]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1192945129m/3109.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dilemma 4.25 21425 The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century

"What should 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. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't -- which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.

Pollan has divided The Omnivore's Dilemma 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. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on. He concludes each section by sitting down to a meal -- at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. 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.

We are indeed what we eat -- and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as What shall we have for dinner?]]> 2121 4.16 44450 10711 315425 1594201455 9781594201455 3087 <![CDATA[In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203535494m/315425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food_An_Eater_s_Manifesto 4.03 11262 "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma.
Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." These "edible foodlike substances" are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food."
Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we'll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.
In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us.
In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.]]> 2121 4.16 44450 10711 13839 0375760393 9780375760396 1116 <![CDATA[The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255579535m/13839.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13839.The_Botany_of_Desire_A_Plant_s_Eye_View_of_the_World 4.06 6620 similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?]]> 2121 4.16 44450 10711 57536 0802140114 9780802140111 144 <![CDATA[Second Nature: A Gardener's Education]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170468816m/57536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57536.Second_Nature_A_Gardener_s_Education 3.92 764 2121 4.16 44450 10711 13838 0385319908 9780385319904 62 <![CDATA[A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166573832m/13838.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13838.A_Place_of_My_Own_The_Education_of_an_Amateur_Builder 3.85 349 A Place of My Own recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building--from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry--with reflections on everything form the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what constitutes "real work" in a technological society.

A book about craft that is itself beautifully crafted, linking the world of the body and material things with the realm of mind, heart, and spirit, A Place of My Own has received extraordinary praise:

]]> 2121 4.16 44450 10711 6114536 0803734158 9780803734159 6 <![CDATA[The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255640740m/6114536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6114536.The_Omnivore_s_Dilemma_for_Kids 3.88 16 New York Times</i< bestseller that's changing America's diet is now perfect for young readers.

“What’s for dinner?” seemed like a simple question—until journalist and supermarket detective Michael Pollan delved behind the scenes. From fast food and big organic to small farms and old-fashioned hunting and gathering, this young readers’ adaptation of Pollan’s famous food-chain exploration encourages kids to consider the personal and global health implications of their food choices.

In a smart, compelling format with updated facts, plenty of photos, graphs, and visuals, as well as a new afterword and backmatter, The Omnivore’s Dilemma serves up a bold message to the generation that needs it most: It’s time to take charge of our national eating habits—and it starts with you.

]]> 2121 4.16 44450 10711 6316356 158243543X 9781582435435 2 <![CDATA[Bringing It to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571581m/6316356.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6316356.Bringing_It_to_the_Table_Writings_on_Farming_and_Food 4.47 15 Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderful collection.

Drawn from over thirty years of work, this collection joins bestsellers The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Pollan, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, as essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat. The essays address such concerns as: How does organic measure up against locally grown? What are the differences between small and large farms, and how does that affect what you put on your dinner table? What can you do to support sustainable agriculture?

A progenitor of the Slow Food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. “Eating is an agriculture act,” he writes. Indeed, we are all players in the food economy.
</DIV>]]> 8567 4.25 6746 1065 2121 4.16 44450 10711 18672 1881865274 1 <![CDATA[Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18672.Cannabis_Forgetting_and_the_Botany_of_Desire 4.09 11 2121 4.16 44450 10711 5007 3.95 39 3 1388657 4.09 11 1 6283526 1565111753 9781565111752 0 <![CDATA[The Writer in the Garden]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283526.The_Writer_in_the_Garden 3.00 1
Here is an engaging group of more than fifty gardening writers—and writing gardeners—reveling in their likes and dislikes, confessing their shortcomings, and sharing their successes and failures. The Writer in the Garden presents a colorful bouquet of prose and poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. With subjects ranging from an old-fashioned rose to ornery weeds, the hazards of rare plant collecting, and the tribulations of inclement weather, The Writer in the Garden brings together an entertaining selection of garden writing from the past one hundred years. From Thoreau to Jamaica Kincaid, the writers and gardeners here express the trials and joys of gardening in the country as well as the challenges and rewards of trying to make things grow in the city. But whether a garden is large or small, thriving or failing, every gardener has a story.

Bursting with personality, strong opinions, and bright ideas, The Writer in the Garden is a book to read and enjoy—season after season.


Need to add these contributors:
Stephen Lacy (different from Lacey!)
Susan Hill
Thalassa Cruso
Theodore Roethke
Thomas C. Cooper
Vita Sackville-West
W.S. Merwin
Wayne Winterrowd]]> 429835 3.94 17 1 886964 3.83 12 1 25157 3.64 1135 72 293074 3.85 13 0 158432 4.12 143 7 886538 3.25 8 4 21452 3.75 4 0 59389 4.20 343 85 980542 3.00 1 0 11884 4.25 24 5 148946 3.93 223 42 120377 3.94 65 14 2922287 3.00 1 0 988142 4.09 72497 4200 16 3.68 39608 3566 2922288 3.00 1 0 105591 3.73 11 3 2098 4.01 1115 307 1264298 3.00 1 0 159585 3.33 15 3 307301 3.00 5 1 10264 3.83 17773 1280 82500 4.08 64 8 39237 3.70 3573 439 36916 4.34 494 40 260195 3.38 8 1 52519 3.91 43 21 79104 3.89 55 12 2922289 3.00 1 0 184135 3.72 18 5 45712 4.11 1142 120 234673 3.92 48 6 276073 4.41 22 5 338088 4.00 11 2 1408429 4.16 2560 389 247166 3.33 9 4 142051 4.02 196 20 2121 4.16 44450 10711 138658 3.62 8 3 938285 3.50 2 0 1105528 3.00 1 0 1407495 3.00 1 0 745151 3.00 2 1 616775 3.62 8 5 155379 3.00 1 1 14636 3.85 253 46 240499 3.00 1 0 437905 3.65 17 4 2131148 3.00 1 0 532365 4.06 16 7 133923 4.00 8 4 315426 0805003258 9780805003253 0 <![CDATA[The Harper's Index Book]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315426.The_Harper_s_Index_Book 0.0 0 33136 3.99 497 75 2121 4.16 44450 10711 24530 0671639617 9780671639617 1 <![CDATA[Field Guide to Home Buying in America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167538201m/24530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24530.Field_Guide_to_Home_Buying_in_America 3.00 1 Buying a home is probably the single most important investment people ever make. But once you understand the process, much of the fear will vanish. And the joy of owning your own home and putting down roots offers security and satisfaction.

Stephen Pollan walks first-time buyers through the whole process, from house hunting to moving day. He has seen the whole picture as a lawyer, broker, banker, and financial adviser. He, Mark Levine, and Michael Pollan show you how to:

search for a location and learn how to evaluate it

assemble your team: broker, lawyer, contractor, accountant, inspector, and insurance broker

make sure your team serves you, not just the deal itself

use the tactics of negotiating, including offers, increments, what to say, and when and where to say it

examine the contract in detail--what to look for and what to insist on

choose the right bank for your mortgage, straighten out credit difficulties and potential objections

prepare, practice, and plan for the "mysterious ritual" of closing or settling on a house.

"The Field Guide to Home Buying in America" teaches you to be your own best expert and makes home buying a joyous and rewarding experience.

]]> 13807 3.58 144 36 2121 4.16 44450 10711 7015635 014311638X 9780143116387 1 <![CDATA[Food Rules]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256055499m/7015635.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015635-food-rules 0.0 0 A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food

Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.

]]> 2121 4.16 44450 10711 6578189 4896948300 9784896948301 0 <![CDATA[欲望の植物誌―人をあやつる4つの植物]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6578189-4 0.0 0 2972899 0.0 0 0 2121 4.16 44450 10711 2972900 0.0 0 0 6973663 4079766750 9784079766753 0 <![CDATA[ガーデニングに心満つる日]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6973663 0.0 0 2972899 0.0 0 0 2121 4.16 44450 10711 3114879 0.0 0 0