The city of ember.

       in my book the city of ember by Jeanne DuPrau, Lina a 14 year old girl and her best friend doon are stuck in an underground hell. the only thing they know is that they live in the only city in the world and there is nothing but darkness anywhere outside the city of ember.linas grandmother is despertly ooking for a timed lunch box. inside holds the secrets to escape from the underground hell hole.

   the reason for this underground city was that there was a horrible plague that threatening the human race so Linda's great  grandma went underground to keep the race alive. she died but before she did she gave Linda's grandmother the instructions.

   now that Lina grandma found it poppy her little sister has chewed it so now its barley legible. lets see if Lina and Doon can decipher this cryptic message      

     

rr for march 7th

     In my ,book  the Omnivore's Dilemma  the characters are trying to figure out what is causing the universal omnivores dilemma.  Michael Pollan goes around the world looking for the best food chain and try to figure out how some farmers use organic ingredient. Michael travels to a farm called Pollyface. They raise hens and chickens in a happy environment. This farm doesn't use any byproduct or any mutilators. The Farmers let the chickens roam around and eating worms, incests on the farm. The buyers don't mind seeing the animals getting slaughtered because they know they lived a happy life on the farm.

He also talked about corn, how it is the most abused food in America. It is literally used in everything, like when you go to MC Donald's if your like me you get MC Chickens and a large drink. well, your eating a corn fed chicken in a corn flour fried in corn oil, and to wash it down you drink a soda sweetened with high fructose corn syrup . He was allowed to go to hte goverment facility and find out exactly how many "fod" items it makes. 

Michael Pollan then  goes on a  hunt to solve the very beginning of the omnivores dilemma. That means he has to go to the very bottom of the food chain with no manufactures or pesticides or humans involved just the wild food. Mr. Pollan said,  "that his plan was to go the outback of California and live off the land". First step was to  find and kill a wild boar. Then for the vegetables  find some herbs and then go to a previously burned forest to collect special mushroom. This mushroom can only be found in a place filled with ashes, its very delicious. This special  mushroom are called morels, they  only need feed on ashes to grow. As he described it ,it was the "perfect" dinner except that the mushrooms were gritty and the salt that he had collected in the San Fransisco bay was too toxic to serve to a human.

     this book has really opened my eves to how we Americans eat. we have no diverse food or culture. without it we stray from our roots and cause the omnivores dilemma. And just what goes intoour food and how most food is corn. This book has literally CHANGED my life