‘If you’re letting a corporation cook it, the odds are you’re not getting healthy food’

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Michael Pollan has been exploring all things food in a series of books. His latest is "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation." I sat down with him recently.

Welcome to you.

MICHAEL POLLAN, "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation": Thank you. Good to be here.

JEFFREY BROWN: You are making a big claim in this book that cooking has not only a history that tells us a bit about who we are, but that it even has a kind of ethical side to it.

MICHAEL POLLAN: It does, actually.


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Well, to paraphrase Wendell Berry, cooking is an agricultural act. You know, what you decide to cook, whether you decide to cook has an enormous bearing all the way along the food chain, back to the land. The reason we industrialized our agriculture to the extent we did is because we had industrialized our eating.