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A Place of My Own: The Education of An Amateur Builder

Michael Pollan explores how cooking mediates between nature and culture in his 2013 book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. The book is organized into four sections corresponding to the classical elements of fire, water, air, and earth that represent different cooking methods. Pollan has also written for Greater Good magazine about the intersection of ethical eating and social psychology, as well as a 1998 book documenting the design and construction of his writing studio.

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A Place of My Own: The Education of An Amateur Builder

Michael Pollan explores how cooking mediates between nature and culture in his 2013 book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. The book is organized into four sections corresponding to the classical elements of fire, water, air, and earth that represent different cooking methods. Pollan has also written for Greater Good magazine about the intersection of ethical eating and social psychology, as well as a 1998 book documenting the design and construction of his writing studio.

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In Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, published in 2013, Pollan explores the methods by which cooks mediate "between nature

and culture." The book is organized in four sections corresponding to the classical elements of Fire (cooking with heat), Water (braising and boiling with pots), Air (breadmaking), and Earth (fermenting). Pollan has contributed to Greater Good, a social psychology magazine published by the Greater Good Science Center at University of California, Berkeley. His article "Edible Ethics" discusses the intersection of ethical eating and social psychology. In his 1998 book A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder, Pollan methodically traced the design and construction of the out-building where he writes. The 2008 re-release of this book was re-titled A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams.

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