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Cooked : a natural history of transformation / Michael Pollan.

by Pollan, Michael.

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Thorndike Press/Gale, Cengage Learning, c2013.

Molecular gastronomy.

Cooking -- Social aspects -- Anecdotes.

9781410456533 (hc.)

1410456536 (hc.)

Large print ed.

689 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

"A portion of Chapter Two first appeared under the title "Out of the Kitchen Onto the Couch" in The New York Times Magazine, July 29, 2009" --T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements-- fire, water, air, and earth-- to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world, standing squarely between nature and culture. Both realms are transformed by cooking, and so, in the process, is the cook.

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