Full name: Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

Author: Simran Sethi Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Food, Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061581076 9780061581083 0061581070 0061581089

In the last century, we have lived-and eaten-through the most dramatic shifts ever experienced in food and agriculture. While much of this is invisible, what we do know is that food is beginning to look and taste the same, whether you're strolling through a San Francisco farmers market, at a Midwestern potluck-or a McDonald's in India. Ninety-five percent of the world's calories now come from only 30 species, and a closer look at America's cornucopia of grocery store options reveals that our foods are primarily made up of corn, wheat, rice, palm oil and soybeans. The diversity of our food supply is dwindling. Part journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate, Bread, Wine, Chocolate tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing it, and the inspiring people and places that are sustaining the foods we love-celebrating the fact that the solutions to the loss of agrobiodiversity aren't difficult; they're delicious. Join award-winning journalist Simran Sethi as she travels from wild coffee forests in Ethiopia to cocoa plantations of Ecuador, from the brewery to the bakery and the temple, to meet scientists, farmers, chefs, wine makers, beer brewers, coffee roasters and chocolate connoisseurs to discuss the reasons for this loss and learn what it means to experience food in a whole new way, tasting foods more deeply through each one of our senses in order to savor-and save-the foods we love. Similar books: The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston The Information by James Gleick Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels Coming of Age In The Milky Way by Timothy Ferris How to Make a Spaceship by Julian Guthrie Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin