065 The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Where does our food come from? (And why is there so much corn in everything?) Julia and Victoria, with special guest and Book Club’s project manager Rebecca Gesme, discuss Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma in which he endeavors to answer these very important and complicated questions.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

• Michael Pollan’s website

• Netflix series, “Cooked”

• Judith Belzer, painter

• Pollan’s interview on Fresh Air (2018)

Recommendations:

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

• 2016 Washington Post follow-up article by Pollan

• Documentary, “Fantastic Fungi”

• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

• We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer

• Cookbook, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman

• Ron Finlay

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