Seeing Green has much to say about “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan. Read his interesting thoughts. He also has a piece about bookstores…

There’s something about a great bookstore that seems so nostalgic, so
appealing, so just-right. They do, however have to be of that
fast-vanishing breed, the independent bookstore; B&N and Borders
don’t cut it in my opinion- "most of these mega-stores have no in-house
expertise and about as much soul as Starbucks. And they put better
bookstores out of business."