About this item
Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, combining our individual biological characteristics, personal preferences, and emotional connections. Bread, Wine, Chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love, but also what it means to lose them. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi reveals how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion - a slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat.
About the Author
Named "the environmental messenger" by Vanity Fair and a top 10 eco-hero of the planet by the U.K.'s Independent, Simran Sethi is a journalist and educator focused on food, sustainability and social change. She is the author of "Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love," recently published by HarperCollins Publishers, and is an associate at the University of Melbourne's Sustainable Society Institute in Australia.
