Cooked: a Natural History of Transformation
Maria says:
I found the section on fermenting vegetables to be the most interesting and though provoking. The whole book is good, but slow roasting meat is no great mystery, nor is stewing a pot of meat. Bread is great but I don't care that much about the machinery of making it. But the fermented vegetables and the bacterial processes that work their magic, that was really something to chew on. I have a feeling I'll start making homemade saurkreut and kimchee, based on this book. Worth the read i...f you like food and enjoy getting a deeper inside into how to cook it.
Mary says:
Not his best book, but certainly an entertaining history of the main types of cooking. Pollan shows food in both historical and modern contexts. Unlike the Omnivore's Dilemma, this is a story about Pollan's journey. He spends, a little too much time talking about his own personal journey and not enough about the key points he is trying to make. In the end, you get why he is right for so many reasons and are left hoping that maybe you too could get to where he leads you to believe is the right place for cooking in your life.MoreLess
I found the section on fermenting vegetables to be the most interesting and though provoking. The whole book is good, but slow roasting meat is no great mystery, nor is stewing a pot of meat. Bread is great but I don't care that much about the machinery of making it. But the fermented vegetables and the bacterial processes that work their magic, that was really something to chew on. I have a feeling I'll start making homemade saurkreut and kimchee, based on this book. Worth the read i...f you like food and enjoy getting a deeper inside into how to cook it.
Mary says:
Not his best book, but certainly an entertaining history of the main types of cooking. Pollan shows food in both historical and modern contexts. Unlike the Omnivore's Dilemma, this is a story about Pollan's journey. He spends, a little too much time talking about his own personal journey and not enough about the key points he is trying to make. In the end, you get why he is right for so many reasons and are left hoping that maybe you too could get to where he leads you to believe is the right place for cooking in your life.MoreLess
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