Pollan’s Unpalatable Recipe for Cooked

[This version is an extended version from what appears in print]

In his book Cooked, A Natural History of Transformation, author Michael Pollan sets out “to pinpoint the precise historical moment that cooking took its  fatefully wrong turn: when civilization began processing food in such a way as to  make it less nutritious rather than more,” and as anticipated in In Defense of Food, “the sharpest and clearest line would be the advent of pure white flour …&rdquo…