I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.
Michael PollanThe sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.
Michael Pollan