by Michael Pollan · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143125334
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation» is Michael Pollan's essay on cooking and food, published by Penguin Books in paperback.
Michael Pollan ventures into his kitchen to learn from artisan masters how to roast, cook with liquids, bake bread, and ferment. The work has four parts linked to fire, water, air, and earth, reflects on how cooking connects us with nature and others; argues that reclaiming the kitchen is key to a healthy food system.
Originally published on April 29, 2014; it has 480 pages and text in English. The book gave rise to the Netflix documentary series «Cooked», directed by Alex Gibney and starring Michael Pollan.
Suitable for readers of gastronomy and food culture, as well as for those who want to reflect on the role of cooking in society and nature.
Michael Kevin Pollan is an American journalist, specializing in food, who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where in 2020 he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program.
