The first couple of chapters of this mirrored Pollan’s Defense of Food so completely – right down to anecdotes and examples – that I was nervous about plagarism. But Glassner takes his book in a different direction, condemning any and all obsessions about food equally, including those to which he subscribes, like the slow food movement. It has some interesting facts about industrial food, our quest for the novel and authentic, and the genetics of obesity, to name a few. It’s a good addition to the ‘read about food politics’ canon, even if the author is a bit obsessed with letting us all know exactly which tony restaurants he has visited.