A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more Audiobook (Free)

Since his NY Situations op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has surfaced as you of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times’ only devoted opinion columnist within the food beat, Bittman consistently makes readers think about how the food we eat can be created, distributed, and cooked, and shines a shiny light over the serious effect that diet-both good and bad-can possess on our health and that of the earth.

In A Bone to choose, Mark’s most about A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about meals, with knowledge and suggestions on diets, meals basic safety, GMOs, farming, and more memorable and thought-provoking columns are compiled into a solitary volume for the first time. As abundant and safe as the American food supply appears to be, the state of our health reveals the current presence of staggering zero both the program that produces meals and the makes that regulate it. Bittman leaves no issue unexamined; agricultural practices, government legislation, fad diets, and commercial greed all come under scrutiny and present that the issues governing what results in our market basket and on our furniture are both complex and often deliberately complicated. Unabashedly opinionated and invariably thought provoking, Bittman’s columns possess helped readers decipher arcane policy, unpack scientific tests, and deflate affronts to common sense when it comes to identifying what “eating well” truly means. As urgent as the problem is, Mark contends that people can be positive about the future of our meals and its effect on our health and wellness, as slow-food actions, better school-lunch applications, and even “healthy junk food” become part of the norm.

At once motivating, enraging, and enlightening, A Bone to Pick is an essential resource for every reader eager to understand not merely the complexities inherent in the American meals system, but also the many opportunities which exist to boost it.