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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
How we should eat
Omnivore's Dilemma is a wonderfully written book which covers all aspects of food in today's world. Michael Pollan starts by taking a close look at industrial agriculture from the view point of Corn. A plant that is tailor made to our mass production, fossil fuel ...
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Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
Metropolis Books, 2008
"lawns all mown, some poisoned, all free of weeds, all free of cover..." - Lydia Davis
Fritz Haeg himself issues a kind of disclaimer at the end of his preface to look up Rosalind Creasy's The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping if what you're looking for is a definitive how-to guide to creating an organic garden. I felt it necessary to counter the ...
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan
Grove Press, 2003
Lawn Mowing et al
Pollans description of what is a green thumb and the sysiphean art of mowing reminded me how therapeutic gardening can be and why it cures depression. Thank you Michael for making me look at my roses in a totally different way. You will love this book if you tend to ...
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Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill
Daniel Imhoff
University of California Press, 2007
Farm Policy for Dummies (Like Me)
Word of the day: "cornification." Cornification, in a nutshell, is the takeover of a diverse landscape by one mighty plant: corn. The "Effects of Cornification" graphic on page 17 of Dan Imhoff's new book shows the results: the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, factory ...
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
A winning combination: interesting food history that leads us to a healthy diet
What to eat? Food as opposed to nutrients. What is food? What your great great grandmother would recognize as food. But the grandmother would have to be taught the importance of buying organic. She would have to learn how to read some ingredient labels because many ...
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
Audio Evolution, distributed by Gildan/Hachette, 2007
Yawn
It probably reads better in print. The audio has a juvenile intonation. Not recommended for in- car use if you tend to fall asleep at the wheel.
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
Michael Pollan
Delta, 1998
a classic
this book is elegantly written, erudite and entertaining. I'd recommend it highly both to the carpenter who would like to know more about the ancient roots of construction and to the armchair traveller types. It examines the dynamic between builder, client and ...
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002
A Great Read
If you are at all interested in evolution and biology, and man's relationship with the natural world, this is a must-read. Pollan presents the material in a way that makes it digestible to individuals with only a lay-person's knowledge of science.
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Lifemaps: A Step-By-Step Method for Simplifying 101 of Life's Most Overwhelming Projects
Michael Antoniak
Atria, 2002
The school of hard knocks in one package
What an amazing achievement. Antoniak takes life's most problematic tasks and turns them into easily followed step by step processes. From the monumental -- buying a home -- to the mundane -- shopping for a used car -- Lifemaps offers solutions. Buy this book and you ...
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Voices of the Land
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2004
Gorgeous, reflective pieces abound
What does it mean to really know the land, or a wild space? The essays compiled and edited by Jamie Crelly Purinton for Voices Of The Land go well beyond commercial or economic values to consider the ecological and social meaning of land stewardship, from getting to ...
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A Place of My Own
Michael Pollan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998
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Tulipa: A Photographer's Botanical
Artisan, 1999
Spell-binding and amazing
In all of my years, I have never seen quite a unique and exquisite celebration of the maginificence of these natural wonders. Christopher Baker's eye portray's the simple elegance of these flowers with a passion that is fascinating. One can hardly appreciate the ...
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The Botany of Desire - A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
Random House, 2001
An excellent set of observations concerning global change
This is an excellent book with a considerable set of observations concerning the shifts occurring in the global power equation. It is both complementary of and critical of Western Civilization. It gives credit where credit is due: Western Civilization established a ...
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The Botany of Desire
Michael Pollan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002
I Love This Book!
A fascinating read. The Botany of Desire is quite possibly my favorite book. You'll find yourself quoting all kinds of interesting facts about the history of apples and never wanting to eat non-organic potatoes ever again. I constantly recommend this book to others, ...
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We Made a Garden (Modern Library Gardening)
Margery Fish
Modern Library, 2002
Garden story....
WE MADE A GARDEN is a lovely little book by Margery Fish, an "elderly" English lady who with her husband (he who must be obeyed or cleverly deceived it seems) moved to a country manor and converted the mostly lawn areas into gardens of shrubs, flowers, and herbs. First ...
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