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 ==== Cooked By Michael Pollan ====
-[[reading notes]] from **Cooked** https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items/itemKey/4MP2FF5D
+[[reading notes]] from **Cooked** (present in the [[foam library]] https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items/itemKey/4MP2FF5D )
+==== related ====
+  * [[dough and bread]]
+  * [[category food]]
+Above all else, what I found in the kitchen is that cooking //connects//. (p. 18, italics by the reader)
+__Specialization__ is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. (...) it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore __responsibility__, between our everyday acts and their real-world consequences. (...) Perhaps what most commends cooking to me is that it offers a powerful corrective to this way of being in the world - a corrective that is still available to all of us.
+In a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization - against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltration of commercial interests into every last cranny of our lives. (...) Cooking has the power to transform more than plants and animals: it transforms us, too, from mere consumers into __producers__.