In the past year I have read two books about food that have really impacted my thinking about the way I eat. The first was The Omnivore's Dilemma and most recently The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes. While the first examines the way we eat and at least to me the ethics behind our food choices, the other does as well in a more oblique fashion by examining local foods and customs but all the while illustrating the dilemmas faced in making food choices. I highly recommend both books.
As a result of reading these books, I am seriously questioning my omnivore status and wondering if there is any ethical way to eat meat. Going to the grocery store with Zach over the weekend was for him putting up with my hemming and hawing over whether buying even the organic chicken was okay, knowing that it still may not have been treated in a humane manner. On the other hand, buying a pot roast that was neither guaranteed to be organic or cruelty free. So, as I continue to face my own omnivore's dilemma, I invite you all to think about the food you buy and choose to eat. I think that pondering these issues not only improves our overall culinary experience, but in the end may just lead to better eating.
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I haven't read the Parker Bowles book yet, but I did read "Omnivore's Dilemma" and it should be required reading for all foodies. That book rocked my culinary world and primes anybody who cares about their health and the health of the planet to seriously examine the choices we make when at the grocery store / restaurant / farmer's market etc.
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