Weaving Corn Into Our Life

Pollan spends a good amount of time talking about carbon and the human body, which surprised me, because the book seems more geared towards the cultural part of food. Yet he makes sure to talk about carbon in a way that makes it simple for the reader to understand. Not only that but he then connects it back to the cultural part of food, so he ties everything together so as to create the big picture for the reader. I noticed that he does that throughout part one which then makes me believe that his whole book has this kind of standard. I appreciate the different parts of history that he weaves together to create the bigger picture of his book which can be argued to be a major idea throughout. Corn is in all aspects of life; as much as we are dependent on corn, corn is dependent on us and over time it has and it will become a detrimental part of our diets.