The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

This book by Bee Wilson deserves a wide audience. When I was a younger person working in the food-processing industry, I pushed the claims of my organization. However, since then, I have learned to eat natural food, freshly cooked.I have several books on this topic, so much of her material is familiar. However, she has done excellent research and covers countries spanning several continents, unlike many authors.The book's organization is excellent, and I like her even tone throughout the text. The pitfalls of cheap, easy, processed food should be public knowledge and good eating habits. She also wrote about our low attention to food these days: we often wolf down our food or eat while looking at a screen. Similarly, she dissects the issues with 'liquid food,' which is becoming popular.If you don't savor your food, you have lost half the battle to a good life and health. Bee Wilson makes this point with grace and subtlety.This book is excellent. Read it.

I am so glad to have come across this book. An incredible insight into the landscape of food. From the times of famines, food shortages and hunger to food surplus and over consumption, food economics has changed dramatically over past decades and Bee Wilson has covered it all. The entire book flows around how we have lost our sense of balance, whether it's a balance of meals across the day or balance of nutrients on our plate. We are blitzed so much with the marketing campaigns, the greed of corporates, the lack of government policies that we have invariably ended up inviting chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, obesity and malnutrition.But all is not lost and Bee is still hopeful of the better times going ahead and appreciates what we already have.Very well written with a logical flow. Loved reading this one!

Has good history of food making and choices. Explains how corporations influence our food choices. May be a little too optimistic about how we can change the culture of food to one that is more healthy and satisfying.

Wow, is all I can say. This book has completely changed how I eat…it’s like it’s pulled me out of a matrix of fake, processed food everywhere to the point where I can go into stores and shops and totally ignore processed food.I’ve just ordered Bee’s other book “The First Bite,” so I can learn to love a wide variety of vegetables. How in the world did we ever get from real food to food with so little nutrition??I just know I don’t want any part of it anymore. I feel so empowered! Thanks Bee so much for this gem of a book. ❤️

excellent book about how twisted our food system is! get it! if you eat, then read this!

I found this to be largely disappointing as in my opinion it didn't really go over any new ground that hasn't been covered before. Yes we have become time poor and there are low income people in the world and we are susceptible to convenience. Apparently we have lost our connection with real food because of the bewildering array of food choices which we cannot comprehend. We have become a community of snackers, overeaters and devotees of processed food which has lead us to becoming obese and unhealthy. If we don't take that road we are orthorexics with stupidly expensive tastes for weird super foods. The most infuriating aspect of her book is her often repeated assertions that none of our problems are self inflicted, they are all the fault of greedy corporations who have forced us to guzzle soft drinks and chow down on chips. So the fact that we choose to overeat and knowingly eat 'bad' foods is not our fault. The author seems to believe that nobody has any self discipline or agency at all and we are just manipulated by fast food giants who control our minds. Apparently it is also evil for companies to sell their legal products in non-Western companies. Instead of understanding the rationality of companies responding to the needs of consumers say for example by offering prepared foods to consumers who lack time, the author seems to believe that the food companies have somehow contributed to the breakdown of society. People make their own choices about food and drink. What governments can do is to educate people about nutrition and food choices so everyone is on a level playing food of knowledge and leave them to get on with it. If we go down the path the author's arguments would lead we will be told what we can eat and drink and I for one don't want that. Disappointing and annoying read.

great book for those who love cooking and technology-innovation