While reading this last section of The Omnivore's Dilemma, I found chapter 15 to be the most interesting out of all of them. It seemed very fitting for Pollan to end his adventures with a meal made entirely from scratch. His quest to hunt and gather a well rounded three course meal was very respectable by Pollan. I agree with him that hunting and gathering has no chance of becoming a viable way of life for humans in this day in age. The times of mobile hunter and gatherer societies are long gone and agriculture has took it's place to feed the sheer amount of people that are on this planet.
I also found it funny how he couldn't eat the meal he had prepared because we was too worried abut if the mushrooms he picked were poisonous. I guess all the negative things parents say about mushrooms actually do help us sometimes, as it did to Pollan in this case. Pollan's effort to prepare a well rounded meal entirely from "scratch" was noble, however, I would have found it much more satisfying if Pollan had manned up and ate the food he found anyway. If the food was bad, he could have just wrote about his experiences in the hospital. It would have made it more interesting and satisfying, in my opinion.
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I thought it was funny that he was afraid of the mushrooms too. I myself have a pretty big phobia of foods I guess you could say. So luckily I don’t even like mushrooms or I’m sure I’d be just as paranoid. I agree that he should’ve eaten the meal he cooked, I thought that was the whole point of the book… I was disappointed. And you’re right, if he did end up in the hospital I think it would’ve made the book more exciting.
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