Giles Coren vs Cooked by Michael Pollan
Giles Coren was on enjoyably caustic form reviewing gastro-philosopher Michael Pollan’s Cooked for The Times:
“… do not, I repeat not, make the mistake of reading Cooked. For to say that Pollan writes like a drain is woeful understatement. He writes like a soil pipe. Like the fat trap at your local Nando’s. And he does it in that way that is peculiar to stalwarts of The New York Times bestseller list (on which Cooked made it to No 1), with a style that hitches ceaseless repetition of the toweringly obvious to misgrasped gobbets of popular philosophy and endless rhetorical questions.”
