The Way We Eat Now

How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

De: Bee Wilson

Narrado por: Bee Wilson

An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats--and shows us how we can change it for the better
Food is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion?
Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating, from bubble tea to quinoa, from Soylent to meal kits.
Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps. Yet modern food also kills--diabetes and heart disease are on the rise everywhere on earth.
This is a book about the good, the terrible, and the avocado toast. A riveting exploration of the hidden forces behind what we eat, The Way We Eat Now explains how this food revolution has transformed our bodies, our social lives, and the world we live in.

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"The Way We Eat Now is both useful and informative, thoroughly and enterprisingly reported. ... Wilson presents a remarkable array of data, often in unusual and striking charts, and delivers numerous surprises."—New York Times

"You have to read this book."—Nigella Lawson

"In a brilliant new book, The Way We Eat Now, food writer Bee Wilson warns: 'For most people across the world, life is getting better but diets are getting worse.'"—Evening Standard (UK)

"Wilson sets out to demonstrate how dysfunctional our attitude to taking nourishment from the world has become. She is adept at finding the bold headlines, Wilson is also good as the devastating detail. Unlike several other food writers, Wilson's solutions remain rooted and realistic."—Times Literary Supplement (UK)

"Given our current position, The Way We Eat Now could serve as a warning, even as a threat about what could happen if we don't buck up our ideas. But it doesn't read that way. Wilson's desire to preserve the pleasure around eating shines out of this book even when grappling with the stickiest of issues."—The Spectator (UK)

"In The Way We Eat Now Wilson questions the entire food system as she addresses the paradox of our age: why as we become progressively wealthier, our diets become ever poorer.... Processed foods, a voracious marketing machine, faddiness, Instagram, yo-yo diets, sedentary lifestyles, takeaway apps -- the villains of the piece are familiar and plentiful and Wilson lays them bare in her typically scholarly way."—The Times (UK)

"This compelling overview of global eating habits by acclaimed food writer and Wall Street Journal columnist Wilson seesaws back and forth between alarming paradoxes. We eat to live, but what we eat is killing us.... Wilson's many fans and new converts alike will find her arguments convincing."—Booklist

"Merging impressive data with an engaging narrative style, The Way We Eat Now tackles the unsustainability of global food systems. Bee Wilson once again proves herself one of the world's most compelling voices in journalism, revealing how food is in danger of becoming an inferior good and offering a blueprint for practical ways to return real food to its rightful place at the table. This book should be required reading for everyone."—Darra Goldstein, founding editor of Gastronomica

"Bee Wilson's deep dive into the causes and consequences of today's unsustainable -- but now worldwide -- eating patterns is nothing less than a call to action. We must change today's Global Standard Diet to one that promotes planetary as well as our own health."—Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, and author of Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

Helped Me Eat Much Better

Very good. Love it! Started to change the way I ate. I always had this gnawing hunger yet was spending way too much on groceries. Motivated me to do further reading. If you want to know HOW to eat, read Food by Dr. Hyman. It will blow you away!

Worth your patience

I had a tough time at first getting into this book, but am so glad for determination; this is wonderful
Much of the info available via Micheal Pollan, Dr Gregor, and others, but this contextualizes how we got here, and where we are going.
Really great

Important Perspective

A wonderful perspective looking at how our food customs have changed over the years. Where we have been and where we need to go are important insights that Bee discusses in the book. A must-read for those who value the quality and diversity of our food.

Overall very good

I always enjoy Wilson’s articles in the Wall Street Journal and I read Consider the Fork, her previous book. She writes well and her intermittent descriptions of the varied pleasures of food are a treat. Extensive as this book is it still doesn’t touch on all the reasons for our ill health and poor eating habits today. She strives to take the emphasis off of personal responsibility in what we eat, and it's true it can feel in America like the culture is working against eating well, but personal responsibility is still important, as we see in her Epilogue where she provides some tips for turning the tide and eating well again.

Great story teller, engaging writer and narrator

Bee Wilson is a great story teller. I've listened to the three books of hers available on Audible and they are all really engaging -- she uses all kinds of sources to build her arguments, weaves stories and data very effectively, and focuses on very interesting issues about food and our relationship to food. Discusses recent changes in food production and consumption patterns around the world. I found the information about Latin American food consumption changes since the 90s really interesting. The narration is also very good and very clear. Highly recommend.

Concerned about health at all? This book is a MUST for you!

Extremely engaging and interesting. Excellent narration. A real eye-opener as to why so much of the world is becoming overfed and undernourished. This book is full of facts and figures but is actually intensely interesting to listen to even if you are not a statistics person. Give it a try!

Fantastic Read

I loved this audio book. I learned so much about food and how it is distributed in our society. How it affects our lives. I am trying to eat better and this material helped me to better understand myself and my relation to food. A very fascinating book. Thank you Bee Wilson.

I listen to this and miss being a sociologist.

Bees research, delivery and lively entertaining presentation of the materials is fantastic. Highly recommend this book! Can’t wait to hear her next

11 hours of " Modern diets are crap and you are crap from eating it"

The entire book is focused of telling us that chips and fast food are bad (Gasp, what a news flash) . No insights, nothing new. if I wanted a lecture on modern diet, I'd call my mother.
Save your credit. Nothing new here.

Slow, doesn't get to the point-20% info, 80% fluff

Unimpressed. Good concept, slow writing. Filling pages with fluff and rhetorical questions. Short on strong information. Feels like reading a BuzzFeed, click-bait article.