Part 28 (1/2)

Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages, by Patrick E. McGovern

Wild Fermentation, by Sandor Katz

Selected Sources

Listed below, by chapter, are the princ.i.p.al works referred to in the text, as well as others that supplied me with facts or influenced my thinking. Web site URLs are current as of September 2012. Any articles of mine cited here are available at michaelpollan.com.

INTRODUCTION: WHY COOK?

I explored the ”Cooking Paradox” in a 2009 essay for the New York Times Magazine:

Pollan, Michael. ”Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch.” New York Times Magazine, August 2, 2009.

ON COOKING AS A DEFINING HUMAN ACTIVITY

Flammang, Janet A. The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009. An important book, by a political scientist, on the gender politics, and implications for civic life, of ”food work.”

Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Origin of Table Manners. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. See especially the chapter t.i.tled ”A Treatise on Culinary Anthropology.”

---. The Raw and the Cooked. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Wrangham, Richard, et al. ”The Raw and the Stolen: Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins.” Current Anthropology (1999): 40, 56794.

Wrangham, Richard W. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. New York: Basic, 2009.

ON THE DIVISION OF LABOR AND SELF-RELIANCE

Berry, Wendell. ”The Pleasures of Eating,” in What Are People For? Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010. My discussion of the division of labor and self-reliance owes a large debt to Wendell Berry's entire body of work.

Pollan, Michael. ”Why Bother?” New York Times Magazine, April 20, 2008.

Zagat, Tim and Nina. ”The Burger and Fries Recovery.” Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2011.

ON THE CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF THE CLa.s.sICAL ELEMENTS

Bachelard, Gaston. Air and Dreams. Dallas: Dallas Inst.i.tute, 2011.

---. Earth and Reveries of Will. Dallas: Dallas Inst.i.tute, 2002.

---. The Psychoa.n.a.lysis of Fire. Boston: Beacon, 1964.

---. Water and Dreams. Dallas: Pegasus Foundation, 1983.

Macauley, David. Elemental Philosophy: Earth, Air, Fire and Water as Environmental Ideas. New York: SUNY Press, 2010.

PART I: FIRE