Cooked

Cooked (2013) by Michael Pollan. Pollan explores cooking by relating it to the "four elements": Fire, Water, Air and Earth. For Fire, he looks into the art of barbecue as practiced in North Carolina. For Water, he checks out the art of cooking stews and soups in pots, usually on a stove. In regard to Air, he explores the art of baking bread. and for Earth, he looks into various uses of fermentation, including cheese and beer. It's a pretty entertaining book, although a bit wordy, but he gets into the philosophy behind food and makes it interesting. Very very good. Grade: B+