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File Size: 2349 KB
Print Length: 483 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (May 20, 2014)
Publication Date: May 20, 2014
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00G3L1324
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This is one of the most interesting books I have read that discusses everything wrong with our food culture today. That said, it's also one of the most obnoxious. It's packed full of fascinating information about the way our food is grown, and it's worth the read...if you can get past the author's idealism and snobbery.Let me start off by saying that I had no idea who Dan Barber was until I picked up this book. All of my impressions of him (and his beliefs) are based on what I read in The Third Plate.The Good: (and I mean REALLY good)This book essentially examines the relationships between our food and the environment in which it is raised/grown. That sounds simple, and has been looked at before, but this book takes it to a whole new level. I don't think I've EVER read something that managed to turn my beliefs upside down quite the same way this book did. I have a fairly large organic backyard vegetable garden & keep chickens, and before this book I would have called myself an environmentalist. I would have told you I was doing things the *right* way because it's organic, it's local, it's healthy, etc. This book turns those notions upside down. Barber made me really think about how I see "my" garden, "my" chickens, and "my" yard - and start to think of really and truly integrating the things I want to grow with all the other stuff that naturally wants to live there. Barber's ideas aren't terribly original, but he presented them in a way that was completely and utterly fascinating - and certainly made ME re-think my place and my role in growing my own food.The other thing I loved about this book was that Barber covers the same familiar ground as others - the evils of monoculture crops, the dangers of pesticides, fishing species to extinction, etc. - but he does it in a way that is fresh and interesting. He weaves his research throughout the narrative, and the result is short bursts of information that hit you hard and make you stop & think, but then he moves on before you get bogged down. In reading this book I felt like I was learning a lot, but I never felt like I was reading a textbook. To compare - I liked Omnivore's Dilemma as much as the next person, but I can't deny that my eyes would glaze over if I read too much at once. Barber's book is the complete opposite - lots of personal stories, reflections, and anecdotes are woven WITH the research in a way that is highly readable. No caffeine required.The Bad: (and it's unfortunately REALLY bad)Barber believes that in order for change to occur in this country it has to start at the top. The top being elite chefs, like himself. He describes himself as the "conductor" of a large "symphony," and he uses that analogy frequently throughout the book. From what I gather from this book, Barber essentially works in the food equivalent of an ivory tower. His restaurant is funded by the Rockefellers, and he is surrounded by his own personal organic farm, where he can grow anything he wants. He then takes that "superior" food and charges exorbitant amounts of money for the wealthy folks who can afford to eat at his restaurant. His book is dripping with elitism, and most of the time I felt like he was so out of touch with reality it was laughable.Barber contrasts the monoculture crops in America (and all their evils) with what he thinks are better examples of the way food *should* be grown. He visits farms and interviews the farmers who are changing the way we think about farming in general (which is good). Unfortunately his "examples" were of things like fois gras and jamón ibérico - some of the most expensive products on the planet. It's VERY hard to appreciate the science behind what Barber is trying to say when he backs it up with $700 goose liver examples. His ideas would have been a LOT more meaningful if he had found examples of people growing tomatoes and potatoes according to his idealistic vision of how farming *should* be. Instead, the only successful examples he seems to have found were of people who made it work because their way of farming is essentially supported by the wealthy. While I can appreciate those farmers and what they are trying to do, I was extremely put off by the rampant elitism and snobbery.I also couldn't stomach the 'top down' approach that Barber takes - mainly that change won't ever happen until the best chefs in the world take it upon themselves to start a revolution on behalf of the rest of us. Although I could appreciate Barber's perspective, it was still obnoxious. I also happen to think he has it completely backwards. He's preaching to the wealthy few who can eat at his restaurant, thinking "his" views will naturally trickle down. The won't, simply because the "rest" of us (myself included) are concerned with putting affordable food on the table every week of the year. Most people have no idea that the tomatoes they buy at Walmart don't taste anything like real tomatoes. They don't know because "real" tomatoes don't have any place in their lives - not in the stores or the restaurants they eat at - much less that there are thousands of different TYPES of actual tomatoes. I had no idea until I grew a tomato plant, and I only did that because initially I was looking for ways to save money and still eat healthy foods. I wasn't on a quest for "elite" tomatoes, and it was only by accident that I discovered how MUCH better homegrown food tastes.REAL change has to start with the millions of people that Barber ignores - the regular, everyday middle class & poor. Those are the folks shelling out the money to support our food industry, one box of macaroni & cheese at a time. Until those dollars band together and begin supporting more sustainable agriculture, change won't happen. And until that sustainable agriculture becomes affordable, people will still buy those boxes of mac & cheese. What Barber serves or doesn't serve in his restaurant has virtually nothing to do with that cycle.Barber lives in his ivory tower and preaches about how things *should* be, while the rest of us are worrying about making ends meet. So on the one hand I appreciated Barber's research and agreed with his connections between "the land" and good food, but on the other hand it was a little offensive to wade through 400+ pages of an elitist chef go on & on about perfecting ingredients most people have never even heard of. He may have interesting things to say, but he is SO far out of touch with reality that it all just comes across as idealistic nonsense.Overall: solid 3 starsDefinitely worth the read, especially if you keep your own garden or backyard animals. It will make you think about the complex relationships between the soil, the plants, and the animals, and probably in a way you haven't considered before. It certainly did for me. But that 5-star research was seriously undermined by the 'Lord of the Manor' perspective, which was sometimes a little too tedious and obnoxious to stomach.
Most "go out and eat well, save the environment and somehow still be nice to everyone you meet" books suffer from the fatal problem of not offering a realistic path both to feed 7 billion people while not also destroying the planet. it is the dirty little secret of most environmental initiatives that they would price most people out of living even basic human lives. Basically, food costs too little to be produced sustainably. This is a conundrum that for the most part is just ignored. Not by Dan Barber though.The thoughts in this book may well be the answer. That is a remarkably bold statement. The answer isn't quite what one would expect and I hate reviews that make it unnecessary to actually read the book. So get this and reflect on it. There is the added advantage of the fact that he writes well. And tells an engaging story.The only thing I would suggest for Dan is to go out and open a restaurant priced for almost everyone else on earth, and that does exactly what has to be done. Prove to us that he can do what he says without having to pay $250 a meal. I live a few miles away from Blue Hill and I would be glad to stop by for dinner at such a place. Step it up Dan. The planet depends on it.If that sounds incompatible with my review, then just buy it and see. if you care about food, the Earth and how to stop raising steaks on feedlots but feed us all, then read this.
This book is about food, farming and ecology. I'm a plantsman training to be a farmer and I loved The Third Plate. I found Dan Barbers writing to be compelling, and this book to be highly informative. This book came highly recommended by a friend who is a fellow plantsman. I picked it up and took his advice to read it with a pen. I underlined this book to death. I was thrilled to see that the first section was titled Soil, because I'm a nerd. I was so relieved to find that Dan Barber isn't afraid to treat the subject of soil as a science. I've grown tired of writers changing it from a subject that is a science to one that is just kinda...sciencey. I don't think he gets so heavy with it that it will bore or escape less nerdy folk.If you're waiting for Dan Barber to offer some wisdom as to how we bring healthful and sustainable food to poor people, or even still, the bulk of the middle class, don't. I see a lot of merit in what he has to say about the responsibility of chef's to make ecologically informed choices when developing their menus, but I don't buy into the notion of trickle down food culture. As a not-wealthy-but-well-intentioned-eater, I focused more on the notion of reshaping our meals. This can be implemented by all, not just the wealthy. No matter what the source of your meat is, there is no version of eating a breast of chicken or a 7 oz steak nightly that is sustainable.Oh, and just because everyone else is comparing it to Omnivore's Dilemma, I'll just say that I enjoyed Third Plate much more, and I found it to be much more useful in its discussion of food choices as well as farming. Dear Michael Pollan, please stop anthropomorphizing plants and soil organisms. We have science now. We don't need fairytales to explain what is actually just a combination of evolution, genetics, and plant cultivation.
Wonderful book! It really changed my outlook on food. Dan is very candid and humble, I completely disagree with the reviewers who felt him elitist. Several times on the book he comes clean on things he did wrong and was very open about his impressions and mindset even if it wasn't flattering to hear. That is the mark of great character and intellect. Some of the folks criticized him for being disconnected from average ordinary folks and being too elitist. Maybe they didn't get far enough to read the chapter on the moonshine producers farm. This is a wonderful book and Dan is honest and clear headed, not at all a snob! He is wrong about global warming, but so are a lot of people and that's not his primary concern.
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