Cooked
by Michael Pollan
Pollan learns to cook through four elements, fire (barbecue), water (braising), air (bread), earth (fermentation), and argues that cooking is the practice that most improves what we eat. It is leisurely, joyful and persuasive that the single best diet rule is to cook your own food.
Read it if…
you want to be inspired to cook rather than told what to eat.
Skip it if…
you want recipes or a diet; it is narrative.
Three things you will actually use
- Cooking is the diet.
- Slow processes, braising, baking, fermenting, are restorative.
- Eat anything you want as long as you cook it yourself.
Do this first
Cook one meal from scratch this week that takes longer than an hour.
Our verdict
Joyful and persuasive.
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