Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NEW NETFLIX SERIES ‘It’s not often that a life-changing book falls into one’s lap … Yet Michael Pollan’s Cooked is one of them.’ SundayTelegraph’This is a love song to old, slow kitchen skills at their delicious best’ Kathryn Huges, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times Top Five Bestseller – Michael Pollan’s uniquely enjoyable quest to understand the transformative magic of cookingMichael Pollan’s Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth.Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that when it gets down to it, it also fundamentally shapes our lives.Filled with fascinating facts and curious, mouthwatering tales from cast of eccentrics, Cooked explores the deepest mysteries of how and why we cook.

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Weight 0.33 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

480

Publisher

Year Published

2014-4-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0141975628

About The Author

Michael Pollan is an award-winning author, activist and journalist. His no.1 international bestselling books about the way we live today – including The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defence of Food and Cooked (also a successful Netflix series) ­- combine meticulous reporting with anthropology, philosophy, culture, health and natural history. Time magazine has named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. He lives in the Bay Area of California with his wife and son.

It's not often that a life-changing book falls into one's lap … Yet Michael Pollan's Cooked is one of them. One it's impossible to read and not act on … Embrace bacteria, cook thoughtfully and slow, and taste some of the most luscious food you've ever eaten, this powerful book says. And do it for the people you love as well as the invisible soldiers inside you who are fighting to keep you strong. Cooked is a book of revelations for today's hungry human animal. Be changed by it

Other text

In Cooked, Pollan continues his campaign to get us to eat properly and pleasurably by making meals from scratch … a warm, thoughtful narrative in which Pollan encounters everything from a surfing baker who makes the perfect sourdough to a cheese-making nun. This is a love song to old, slow kitchen skills at their delicious best

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