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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…
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1 author picked Eating to Extinction as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
We all eat because we must and often because we enjoy it.
We all need to pay more attention to what we eat, where words come from, and what happens as we lose some of the diversity of our food.
As we sacrifice diversity, we ALL sacrifice the places and people who preserve ecological and dietary diversity. The author this innumerable endangered foods and food cultures across the planet and encourages us to think about why they’re important
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