I find chapter 20 very interesting and personally very enjoyable to read. Chapter 20 was titled “The Perfect Meal” where Pollan answered his own question in the beginning of the book where he asked “what should we have for dinner?” and he answered that question with chapter 20. I liked how he answered his own question, just like in an essay where you grab your readers attention with a hook for example like a question just like Pollen did and at the end of an essay you concluded it with answering your own question just like Pollan.
The rules that he mention in chapter 20 to make it “the perfect meal” like “everything on the menu must have been hunted gathered or grown by me” reminds me of the people back on my island. People back on the island are not dependent on supermarket due to the high cost of foods along with the low wages so therefore many people have to gather, hunt, and grow their own food. A lot of the food is gathered from the surroundings like the ocean or the rainforests.
Gathering, hunting and growing your own food, for some people, may seem like it will take days to prepare, cook and to eat the meal but in reality it is worth the time. Seeing people back on the island happy for what they have gathered to eat made them happy because its hard work and to many people it is what Michael Pollan would say “the perfect meal”.
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