Chapter 18 of the book goes into great detail of Pollan’s experience hunting wild pigs. I found this chapter somewhat humorous in the way he explained his hunts. When he finally got a chance to get a pig he ends up making a simple mistake that cost him an entire day’s worth of searching.
Moving on to chapter 15/19, he had an experience while gathering mushrooms that struck me as odd. He found a mushroom and was very sure of what he found but a great deal of reluctance held him from even coming close to eating it. The fear we are instilled with of the unknown or uncertain can be broken by the word of someone else’s “expertise.” By himself, he would not eat the mushroom but with his friend, he went on to eat it and feed it to others. This could be compared to how we just accept what an establishment such as Burger King gives us because we can view them as a sort of “expert” in the food industry.
The final chapter of this book describes how he feels in the end of this meal tied to his own findings. As good as food can taste, for some reason, when you prepare it yourself, it definitely tastes better. Though maybe one’s self really just tastes their food topped with pride.
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