Title: Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Author: Dan Saladino
Genre: Nonfiction
This is an important, fascinating, readable, and enlightening book about the loss of so much diversity in the food we eat. Saladino travels around the world and talks about efforts to save some of the more unique and often ancient foods, ingredients, plants, animals, and seeds that are currently dying out. These varieties are often simply not as easily produced on mass scale and so are not compatible with industrial agriculture. Saladino does a great job of showing why this is a huge loss, not just for biodiversity but for cultural preservation and simply for keeping the world interesting and fascinating. I would recommend it to anyone interested in farming, food culture, history, conservation, gardening, or, honestly, eating delicious food and drinking delicious drinks! This issue will only become more pressing as climate change accelerates and Saladino leaves readers inspired to learn more and do what they can to preserve our incredible planet and the plants and animals we eat.
- Meagan
Check out Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino @ the library!
