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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like foodie,' but a form of reverence . . . Enchanting. Molly Young, The New York Times

Dan 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 ever.

Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of theserice, wheat, and cornprovide 50 percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: 95 percent of milk consumed in the United States comes from a single breed of cow, while one in fo

Eating to Extinction

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 31 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250863096
      978-1250863096
      ISBN-10 1250863090
      Also in:
      Biodiversity / Ecosystems Health: Diets and nutrition Cultural studies: food and society

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

      What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like foodie,' but a form of reverence . . . Enchanting. Molly Young, The New York Times

      Dan 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 ever.

      Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of theserice, wheat, and cornprovide 50 percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: 95 percent of milk consumed in the United States comes from a single breed of cow, while one in fo

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