The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781594200823)

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore's Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan's revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore's Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

Author: Michael Pollan
ISBN-10: 1594200823
ISBN-13: 9781594200823
Publisher: Penguin Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 132724 / Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat

Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist
Award: James Beard Foundation Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2005 pg. 100
Publishers Weekly 02/20/2006 pg. 144
Time 04/03/2006 pg. 85
Outside 05/01/2006 pg. 32
New Yorker (The) 04/23/2006 pg. 14
Booklist 04/01/2006 pg. 9
Library Journal 04/15/2006 pg. 103
People Weekly 05/15/2006 pg. 57
Newsweek 07/24/2006 pg. 55
New York Review of Books 06/28/2007 pg. 26
Outside 01/01/2008 pg. 42

About the Author
Michael Pollan is the author of five books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestellers, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and In Defense of Food.

A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.