America’s Dilemma According to Michael Pollan in the year 2009 in the novel Omnivore’s Dilemma, chapter 8 “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” we don’t know what to eat because we don’t have a food culture to fall back on.
We question what to eat because we have never built a culture of food. “We have never had a national food culture in the United States. There’s really no such thing as ‘American Food’”(92). Since America is very diverse, and full of different people from all over the world, nothing has ever been established as to what to eat, what is healthy, and what the average human really needs. Thus, creating what we now know as The Omnivore’s Dilemma. “We have few rules, about what to eat, when to eat, and how to eat, we don’t have any strong food