Tuesday, January 6, 2009
What to Eat
In addition to the book I am currently reading in a start to finish way, I like to keep some books at hand that I occasionally pick up and read from. A lot of these are non-fiction. It takes non-fiction with a strong narrative thread to get me to read it cover to cover (like the book I am currently reading Eat, Pray, Love.) Other non-fiction is more for dipping into now and then. What to Eat by Marion Nestle is a book that often sits on my bookshelf. It is not a book to read straight through (at least for me,) but it has a lot of encyclopedic information about the food we eat. I recently read the section on eggs which gave me food for thought, so to speak. I feel fortunate (especially after reading the section on eggs in this book) in having good sources for local eggs. The book organizes foods both by type and by the area of the supermarket where they are usually found. There's a lot of information about food and nutrition as well as explorations of how food is produced in our country, how it is marketed, etc. At times it offers more info than I really want to know, but it is a great reference.
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