Real Food, Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1681681943 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 506 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Parmesan cheese made of wood pulp or fake lobster rolls, anyone?) Eye-opening.” —PEOPLE magazine “Olmsted boldly walks readers through a course in food authenticity that covers olive oil, cheese, Champagne, seafood, steak, coffee, and more. The book also serves as a handy guide to what items consumers should avoid, and how to find and identify the real deal.” —CookingLight “A striking look at the food industry. food industry.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is an important book to help all buyers shop prudently and with a wary eye toward the claims of food producers. Unfortunately, it’s also full of brazen impostors that are har
Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes this pervasive and dangerous fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting Americans. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. A bona fide gourmand, he travels to the sources of the real stuff, to help us recognize what to look for, eat, and savor: genuine Parmigiano-Reggiano from Italy, fresh-caught grouper from Florida, authentic port from Portugal. It's a massive bait and switch where counterfeiting is rampant and where the consumer ultimately pays the price. Real Food/Fake Food brings readers into the unregulated food industry, revealing that this shocking deception extends from high-end foods like olive oil, wine, and Kobe beef to everyday staples such as coffee, honey, juice, and cheese. You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from sawdust. But Olmsted does more than show us what foods to avoid. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets. Real foods that are grown, raised, produced, and prepared with care by masters of their craft.
"Narrow scope, but excellent information" according to R. Mesnard. Our household is very careful about the food we buy, which is why I was quite interested in this book by Mr. Olmstead. I was fortunate to hear the interview of him on the Diane Rehm show as well. However, I found this book to be rather frustrating, though it does contain a wealth of interesting and, at times, compelling information. We tend to buy org. Problems with Fake and Counterfeit Foods Bassocantor In REAL FOOD/FAKE FOOD, Mr. Olmsted documents, in detail, the rampant problems with fake and counterfeit foods sold in the U.S. He covers quite a few different food items, including beef, seafood, cheese, alcoholic drinks--even fruit juice. The frauds are especially concentrated in "special foods which for the first time in 2014 topped one hundred bil. robert davis said hate the writing, but the message is right on.. this isn't a bad book, but it's written in a pretty sort of sensationalistic way by someone who is more interested in filling paragraphs with unqualified quantifications, unquantified qualifications, and finishing them with clever quips, rather than relating the data.i'm not challenging olmstead's reporting, or even his conclusions, i'd simply have ap