Photo by John Jackson To give some context--I graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor of Arts in December, 2004. I started my MFA in Poetry at the University of Michigan's Creative Writing program in the fall of 2005, and having been awarded a fellowship was able to take some time off of working at Zanzibar while I studied before graduating in April of 2007. The Omnivore's Dilemma , by Michael Pollan, was written in April of 2006. It is hard to overstate the effect that this book has had on my life, to say nothing of the effect that it has had on the rest of the American food landscape. If you haven't read this book, or haven't read it in awhile, I would recommend picking it up again. For me, it was perhaps akin to my parents' experiences of reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. From the publisher As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous landscape, what's at