Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal

In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma comes an “indispensable,” (New York Newsday) fascinating, and cutting-edge look at the scary truth about what really goes into our food.If a piece of individually wrapped cheese can retain its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed to our children?Former New York Times business reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. Warner looks at how decades of food science have resulted in the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive, and most nutritionally inferior food in the world, and she uncovers startling evidence about the profound health implications of the packaged and fast foods that we eat on a daily basis.Combining meticulous research, vivid writing, and cultural analysis, Warner blows the lid off the largely undocumented—and lightly regulated—world of chemically treated and processed foods and lays bare the potential price we may pay for consuming even so-called healthy foods.. She began an investigative journey that took her to research labs, university food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a

Q&A with Melanie Warner

Mayflower Girl said Can't Put it Down--Frightening and Fascinating--Very Well Written. I heard the author on the Diane Rehm show--and decided to purchase the Kindle version of the book. At the same time, I also purchased Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us as he was on the show too. As I got my Kindle book immediately, I began with it first. I'm so glad I did.First off, the book is just really well written. The author is an excellen. Taking real cheese and creating a fake cheese and passing it off as better than natural cheese and for the purpose of long Marly A very interesting book if you want to learn how corporations started altering once healthy whole foods in America. Taking real cheese and creating a fake cheese and passing it off as better than natural cheese and for the purpose of long shelf lives and huge profit for corporations, people wereexcited to be able to try this fake cheeseCereal companies take. takingadayoff said Trojan Twinkies and Poisoned Apple Jacks. Coming on the heels of the excellent Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss, Pandora's Lunchbox might have seemed an also-ran. But there is surprisingly little overlap and the style author Melanie Warner brings is entirely different than the scrappy journalism of Salt Sugar Fat.You already know the story -- there is too much salt, sug