Updated On: 14 September, 2016 07:24 AM IST | | Ranjona Banerji
<p>We, as Indians, sometimes pride ourselves on our ‘tolerance’ but we are, in fact, extremely intolerant of each other’s food habits</p>


Gau Raksha Dal members inspect a truck on a highway in Rajasthan while looking for beef smugglers. File Pic/AFP
In Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the writer and professor of journalism searches, as the cover says, “for a perfect meal in a fast-food world”. He is excoriatingly honest in this search, as he examines the moral and ethical questions of food habits, trends, choices and taboos.