Readers & Writers: Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The author turns his 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.