Advance praise for
THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

"What should you eat?  Michael Pollan addresses that fundamental question with great wit and intelligence, looking at the social, ethical, and environmental impact of four different meals. Eating well, he finds, can be a pleasurable way to change the world."

—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market In this groundbreaking book, one of America's most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating.  His absorbing narrative takes us from Iowa cornfields to food-science laboratories, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on.  Each time Pollan sits down to a meal, he deploys his unique blend of personal and investigative journalism to trace the origins of everything consumed, revealing what we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods and flavors reflects our evolutionary inheritance. 

The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore's Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating.  For anyone who reads it, dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same.

Advance praise for
THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA

"What should you eat?  Michael Pollan addresses that fundamental question with great wit and intelligence, looking at the social, ethical, and environmental impact of four different meals. Eating well, he finds, can be a pleasurable way to change the world."

—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

These are the titles from the Denver Post article:

1001 Arabian Nights
Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 1997; man loses cat, "hilarious, grotesque,

& essential novel."
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams, 1918.
Jane Austen (anything by her)
Hamlet by Shakespeare
The Cairo Trilogy by Nagu-ib Mahfouz, 1956-57.
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert.
My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan, 1990; South Africa/apartheid
Collected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
Invisble Man by Ralph Ellison
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 1958; precolonial Nigeria
The Dharma Bums by Kerouac
The Complete Stories by Kafka
Age of Innocence by Wharton
Paradise Lost by Milton
Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967; "This excruciatingly funny, brilliant novel set in 1930s Poland, the Jerusalem of Pontius Pilate, and Moscow is one of the greatest satires ever written and certainly one of the strangest."

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Letters (John Keats) 1848 and 1878
The Odyssey by Homer
Night by Elie Wiesel, 1958; the Holocaust
The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki, early 11th century; earliest novel in history, by maid of honor

of the imperial Japanese court.
Dubliners by Joyce