No appetite?

Richard Warnica, Canadian Business

In the spring of 2006, Michael Pollan, a Berkeley professor and longtime journalist, published a magazine story about shooting and eating a wild pig. The piece was adapted from Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and became a kind of ur-text for a growing movement of food-obsessed urbanites. At once a gripping narrative of Pollan’s first hunt and a larger examination of how we eat and why, the piece was descriptive, evocative and very much in love with food. Unlike most critiques of the industrial food system—from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, through Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation—it didn’t just dwell on the mucky details of mass slaughter for meat. It also revelled in the social pleasures of eating great meals.