TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 378 LP - 378 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X685969 VL - 66 IS - 648 AU - David Haslam Y1 - 2016/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/648/378.1.abstract N2 - Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We EatLouise O Fresco Princeton University Press, 2015, HB, 560pp, £29.95, 978-0691163871Whatever you’re eating right now, from a supermarket sandwich to a 10-course Chinese banquet, from a cassava root to a Bleep and Booster-style nutrition pill, or especially an apple, it has been comprehensively and painstakingly deconstructed by Louise Fresco. Who grows, or makes it, how, where, why, and how it gets to our table: ‘farm to fork’. The revelations she describes are sometimes critical, often passionately favourable, but never amount to an evangelistic rant about industry, climate change, or fast food: always balanced. Fresco quotes the evangelist John Wesley: ‘Catch on fire with enthusiasm … ER -