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

by Simran Sethi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061581070
• ISBN13: 9780061581076
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Thought Provoking and Readable

This book is both super informative and well researched and remarkably accessible and enjoyable to read. It will make you think much more about the foods you eat and the people who grow them.