Cooked - A Natural History of Transformation - Michael Pollan

Summary

• Pollan gets a master in each of 4 fields (fire, water, air and earth) to teach him how to cook one dish well.

How I discovered it

• Always enjoyed Michael Pollan since Suzie recommended one of his books.

Reflections

• Appreciate good cooking! also, there are so many ways to cook and so much history and ways of doing things and fascinating people.
• I dont have many notes on this book, but i totally enjoyed it and learned a lot from it. Highly recommended.

Details

• Specialization is a force for economic growth, but also individually debilitating
• Great cooking is about the three P's - patience, presence and practise
• High quality ingredients require less work in preparing, and vice versa

Quotes

• God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The taste for partial spoilage can become a passion, an embrace of the earthy side of life that expresses itself best in paradoxes - Harold McGee
• No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers - Horace

References

• goodreads

Related

• Fermented Foods - Christine Baumgarthuber
• A Place of My Own - Michael Pollan