05.10.07
Posted in Books, Musings at 9:06 pm by trueepicure
Twinkie, Deconstructed
: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats (Steve Ettlinger)
I’d seen this book on a couple of different blogs, and I thought it would be a really interesting read. Turns out it is interesting and enlightening. Ettlinger presents the Twinkie as a vehicle for understanding what happens to our food before we eat it. It’s an interesting and somewhat frightening book that I really encourage you to read. It’s not at all gross like Fast Food Nation
sometimes was, so you don’t need to worry about that. Did you know that some of the oils we eat (soy, for example) is extracted from the plant using hexane, a product of natural gas and a common component of gasoline? It kind of puts another spin on the idea that we are addicted to fossil fuels.
If you’re needing a Harry Potter fix, check out the His Dark Materials Trilogy 
: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman). I will tell you, do not read The Subtle Knife without having The Amber Spyglass close at hand. The ending of the Subtle Knife is more like the edge of a cliff, not the edge of a knife.
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