Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-01 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher: Penguin UK In a culture of celebrity chefs and food reality shows. in countries which are crammed with fresh ingredients flown in from every corner of the Earth. we nonetheless year-on-year wade ever deeper into a great swamp of processed foods. The more we watch food on television. the less food we actually prepare and cook. Michael Pollans marvellous new book is a clarion-call for the virtues and values ??of proper cooking - an essential. defining human activity which sits at the heart of our cultures. shapes family life and is in itself hugely enjoyable. Pollan recreates the transformative fundamentals of how we cook. building from the most basic principles: cooking with fire. cooking with water. cooking with air and cooking with earth. Cooked is an extremely funny and surprising plea to Pollans reade...Read More