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  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141975627
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $26.99

Cooked

A Natural History of Transformation




Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking

Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth.

Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that when it gets down to it, it also fundamentally shapes our lives.

Filled with fascinating facts and curious, mouthwatering tales from cast of eccentrics, Cooked explores the deepest mysteries of how and why we cook.

  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141975627
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author of ten books, including This Is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He is also the author of the audiobook Caffeine. A Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellow, Pollan has taught writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University. In 2010, Time named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.

www.michaelpollan.com

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