Eating to Extinction: The Worlds Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Eating to Extinction: The Worlds Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhat Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to…
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Eating to Extinction: The Worlds Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhat Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. Enchanting." --Molly Young, The New York TimesDan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster's pathbreaking tour of the world's vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than everOver the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like "foodie," but a form of reverence . . .
Just three of these--rice, wheat, and corn--now provide fifty percent of all our calories. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome
We Need to Weaken the Mixture