![]() ![]() In fact, Pollan argues, taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step anyone can take to help make the American food system healthier and more sustainable. Pollan is known for his other best-selling books on human eating habits, such as The Omnivore’s Dilemma or In Defense of Food. What’s more, this habit has connections with our evolution and civilization’s history. ![]() Relying upon corporations to process our food means we consume large quantities of fat, sugar, and salt disrupt an essential link to the natural world and weaken our relationships with family and friends. But, as Michael Pollan rightly points out in Cooked, humans are the only animals that cook their food. Michael Pollan says that cooking, above all, connects us, and the effects of not cooking are similarly far reaching. "Cooked" becomes an investigation of how cooking involves us in a web of social and ecological relationships: with plants and animals, the soil, farmers, our history and culture, and, of course, the people our cooking nourishes. Here, he discovers the power of the four classical elements-fire, water, air, and earth-to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. In his book, "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation," Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Michael Pollan is author of several bestselling books such as "The Omnivore’s Dilemma." Today we’ll revisit our conversation with Michael Pollan from May of 2013. ![]()
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